The Core presents an article from The Economist, which discusses enjambment’s popularity and origins. Here is an extract: In “The Force of Poetry”, Christopher Ricks, formerly the Oxford Professor of Poetry who is now at Boston University, writes elegantly of the way enjambment can make language seem elastic: Lineation in verse creates units which may […]
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Tagged Christopher Ricks, enjambment, iambic, John Milton, method, news, Paradise Lost, pentameter, poetry, The Economist, tool
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Relating to CC202’s study of Blake’s work, here is an image from ‘The Tyger’
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Tagged CC202, Enlightenment, Humanities, image, Modernism, photo, William Blake
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March 28, 2013 at 2:25 pm
E.E. Cummings’ style remains unconventional half a century after his death. Below, is a beautiful example of this- his poem titled ‘[l(a]’. l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness To read an interesting discussion of this work, visit bit.ly/11RNSo2
March 28, 2013 at 2:13 pm
In his article for the Guardian, Richard Evans discusses the late Eric Hobsbawm’s posthumous collection of essays, and how they reflect the changes in the historian’s views over time. Here is an extract: What Hobsbawm’s Marxism also did, however, was to turn him from a lifelong optimist – while it was still possible for some to think, […]
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Tagged article, culture, decline, Eric Hobsbawm, essay, historian, history, review, Richard Evans
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March 27, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Relating to CC202’s upcoming study of Nietzsche at the end of this semester is this amusing but informative site: bit.ly/10QJV0h Enjoy!
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Tagged animation, CC202, drawing, fun, Nietzsche, Quotes, site
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March 27, 2013 at 1:54 pm
In his article titled ‘An A from Nabokov’, Edward Jay Epstein recounts his experience from Lit 311 at Cornell University, where he studied many of the works that the Core explores in CC202. Here is an extract: The professor was Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré from tsarist Russia. About six feet tall and balding, he stood, with […]
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Tagged CC202, class, Enlightenment, funny, modern, Modernism, strict, teacher, Vladimir Nabokov
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March 27, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Relating to the Core’s study of W.H. Auden is an article about his insistence on memorizing poetry. Here is an extract: Auden would insist that the boys in his class learn poem after poem by heart. Even parrot-fashion. Auden said it didn’t matter whether they understood them. If they learnt the poems now, they would […]
