Before you read the poem, I’d just like to say that I think the way feminism has developed is a bit ridiculous, epitomized very much by the Sir Tim Hunt ‘scandal’, and this is my attempt at writing a satirical poem aimed at ‘feminists’ like the ones associated with this ridiculous scandal. Sir Tim Hunt is a victim of these ‘fauxminists’, and I’d like to … Continue reading Feminism – a poem
This was the first introduction to De Quincy that I ever read. I thought that Morrison’s introduction to the book, though well-written, contained some fundamental flaws. Obviously Morrison knows his subject well, and that does come across. But, I would like to point out, with no disrespect intended, that his analysis of the paradoxes in De Quincy’s work, lacks substance (unless I am missing something, … Continue reading A critique of Oxford World Classics’ version of Thomas De Quincy’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
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