Even though it is frequent in contemporary fiction, present-tense narration is not easily justified. People and place are no more … More
Tag: satire
90. (Andrew Marvell)
Yesterday’s post on Andrew Marvell perhaps flew too high in abstraction; the thought that literature might be classified by tolerance … More
81. (Joachim du Bellay)
Not a name that gets much English or American attention these (or other) days, Joachim du Bellay made his way … More
69. (Lord Rochester)
Easy in adolescence to thrill at John Wilmot, Lord Rochester for the bawdy excesses of the verse, even then the … More
Critical Provisions 