An ambiguous duality lies at the heart of all good satire. The author invites us to have a laugh at folly or vice. The humor helps us consider these realities from a safe distance because the themes they indict, if considered seriously, are not truly funny. Greed is a serious failing, yet we chuckle atContinue reading “All the Pretty Horses: Gulliver Among the Houyhnhnms”
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Eternal Beauty: Exploring The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
And Lord, dear cousin,’ said he, ‘doth not the pleasantness of this place carry in itself sufficient reward for any time lost in it? Do you not see how all things conspire together to make this country a heavenly dwelling? Do not these stately trees seem to maintain their flourishing old age with the onlyContinue reading “Eternal Beauty: Exploring The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia”
Worlds Imagined 