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And then darkness swept over the plains

Who would win? Henry V vs. Hamlet Polonius vs. Juliet Ahab vs. Iago Josh Mahan vs. Kate (taming of the shrew) and the Nurse (Romeo & Juliet) Cleopatra vs. Lady Macbeth

D. H. Lawrence, Jean Borella

Recently I read with great relish Lawrence’s Studies In Classic American Literature. Here is another critic who, along with Henry James, and Milan Kundera, writes criticism as an exploration or digression that illuminates their own as well as other’s art. Unlike those who took (the tragically still Miss) Sue’s American Civilization classes, I had never […]

Summer Reading

As I work on compiling my summer reading list, I will post my “short list” of books that you “have to read.” Below is a list of works from my favorite novelists; I’m just kind of browsing through my bookshelf. I’ve used kind of specific criteria to shorten the list. 1. They must be novels. […]

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