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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Escaping the Dungeon: Addison on Imagination
“A good poet will give the reader a more lively idea of an army or a battle in a description, than if he actually saw them drawn up in squadrons and battalions, or engaged in the confusion of a fight. Our minds should be opened to great conceptions and inflamed with glorious sentiments by whatContinue reading “Escaping the Dungeon: Addison on Imagination”
Worlds Imagined 