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23 May 2024

William Wordsworth and the Power of a Peculiar Eye

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William Wordsworth and  his green-tinted spectacles [1]   'With an inflamed eye, and joy in our hearts, we see into the life of things ....
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16 Mar 2023

Continuous as the Stars That Shine ...

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Osterglocken (SA/2023)   "When all at once I saw a crowd / A host, of golden daffodils ..."     I.    Often known by its Latin na...
21 Jun 2020

Three Great Liars 3: Oscar Wilde

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Portrait photo of Oscar Wilde  by W. and D. Downey (1889) I. Ultimately, all studies of lying and great liars lead to Wil...
17 Apr 2018

On the Romantic Conception of Childhood

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Suffer little children and forbid them not -  for theirs is the  Kingdom of Heaven I. If there's one child in modern phil...
17 Oct 2016

Floraphilia Redux (With Reference to the Case of Rupert Birkin)

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Floraphilia   YouTube (2009)   Flowering plants don't just grow in soil: they are also rooted in our hearts and blossom in ...
16 May 2016

Executing Elephants Part III: The Case of Chunee (Death by Firing Squad)

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Both cases of elephant execution I have discussed so far took place in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century...
12 Feb 2015

D. H. Lawrence's Dendrophilia

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DHL sitting under an olive tree in Italy (1926) Lawrence is very fond of trees and there are many trees in his writings. In fact, at...