Category Archives: Dickens

Reading Dickens-Dombey and Son

Posted on August 30, 2015 by marklangley

I finally finished my summer reading, Dombey and Son, clocking in at 1040 pages! That is, if you read the Penguin Classics edition. The Wordsworth Edition that I read was only 808 pages, but if felt like 1040 pages. Don’t get me wrong. … Continue reading →

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History and Poetry II

Posted on May 3, 2013 by marklangley

In his Poetics, Aristotle asserts that the poet does something that is actually more scientific than the historian. This is rather a shock to us who live in a time whose intellectual fashion compels us to think just the reverse. Although not … Continue reading →

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