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Hegel’s Logic: You have been taught the Hegelian system wrongly
It is no coincidence I have chosen Dutch painter Judith Leyster’s The Last Drop as the “pictorial reference”, as it were, for this crucial issue of which I am, at long last, about to expound. I touched on this in my Walt Whitman essay and later in my commentary on King Lear; but what instigated… Continue reading
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Emily Dickinson is a cornerstone of Western Literature
I intend this short, introductory essay to be a companion to my “Dissecting Dickinson” series in which I analyse (or, as it was, dissect) Dickinson’s poems. Each is linked here:From Blank to Blank —My Wheel Is in the Dark!The Guest Is Gold and Crimson Within Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon there are approximately 800 authors,… Continue reading
The Western Canon 