Literary PhDrawings

English Literature seen through the eyes of an 'imaginative' group of PhD students

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VeryBello. And a rabbit.

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Mr Darcy.

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Keatsian Despondency.

"If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lillies I should call it langour - but as I am - I must call it Laziness"

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

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We Can Work It Out

Defining roles and responsibilities is of crucial importance in a team, especially when one is working with the anxiety of "future" influence: this is what happened to Wordsworth and Coleridge by the time they were laying out their lyrical Manifesto.

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Definire ruoli e responsabilità è di cruciale importanza in una squadra, specialmente quando si lavora sotto l'angoscia dell'influenza "futura". E' quanto capitò a Wordsworth e Coleridge al momento di elaborare il loro manifesto lirico.

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Johnatan Swift

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ELEGY XX. TO HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED

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Naughty Naughty John Donne!!!

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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"This Grot the Muse shall consecrate to Fame, And mid'st the Stars inscribe Lancelot's Name!"

Even before thinking of "The Rape of the Lock", when dealing with Alexander Pope our minds should turn to his true masterpiece, the "grotto" he had in his garden. Here's a snapshot of the author while commissioning the work to the famous landscape architect, Lancelot "Capability" Brown.

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Prima ancora che a "The Rape of the Lock", il nome di Alexander Pope dovrebbe farci pensare al vero capolavoro del poeta, il "grotto" che si fece costruire in giardino. Eccovi uno scatto dell'autore mentre commissiona l'opera al famoso architetto di giardini, Lancelot "Capability" Brown.

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Generic Instability

Jonathan Swift never meant to write a novel. He wanted to write a MENIPPEAN SATIRE. But nobody knows it, of course. Here's a snapshot of the author looking for his masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, in the wrong section of one of the most popular Italian bookshops, "La Feltrinelli International".

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Jonathan Swift non intendeva scrivere un romanzo. In realtà voleva scrivere una SATIRA MENIPPEA. Ma nessuno lo sa, ovviamente. Eccovi uno scatto dell'autore alla ricerca del suo capolavoro, i Gulliver's Travels, nella sezione sbagliata de "La Feltrinelli International".

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The Anxiety of Influence

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the "reverdie" of English Literature, must be our first post, of course. Scholars and critics from all over the world keep on debating about the possible indebtedness of the Poet to Boccaccio and his Decameron. Here's our humble contribution to the debate: apparently, Geoffrey didn't seem to suffer from our modern literary malady, the so called "anxiety of influence".

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I "Canterbury Tales" di Chaucer, "reverdie" della letteratura inglese, devono proprio essere il nostro primo post. Studiosi e critici da ogni parte del mondo continuano a discutere sulla possibile influenza di Boccaccio e del suo Decameron sul poeta inglese. Eccovi il nostro umile contributo al dibattito: a quanto pare, Geoffrey non sembra aver sofferto della nostra moderna malattia letteraria, la cosiddetta "ansia dell'influenza".

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