WOOL-GATHERER 9
‘Criticism or an open cheque?’: is modesty a virtue in a critic?
‘Ages and Ages’: the Seven Ages of Man – was Jaques in accord with Shakespeare?
‘Hijacking Horace’; the parlour game of translating the Odes.
‘Short Cuts to Parnassus’: the computer as creator in Swift, Dahl, Orwell and Stoppard; randomisation in Ern Malley.
‘Fee-Fo-Fum and the Pestos’: the place of religion in the Utopias of Swift, More and J.F. Bray. (see Extracts page)
‘Where are the Groupies of Yesteryear?’: Thomas Lovell Beddoes and literary societies.
‘Jar-jar and Jaw-jaw’: Maria Edgeworth teaches her juvenile readers a lesson.
‘Always keep a hold of Alma Mater’: the academic seduced by a benefice, as told by Thomas Warton.
‘Enough to Make you Squirm’: links between Professors of Poetry and the worm.
‘Ugly Does as Ugly Is’: the Polyphemus legend in Theocritus, Ovid, Gongora etc. (see Extracts page)
‘Neither having the Accent of Christians’: the speaking of dramatic verse.
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