The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American LiteratureSimon and Schuster, 13/11/2006 - 278 من الصفحات What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . . - Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us - Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness - Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things) - Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin - Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are - Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform - T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture - Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin |
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... young kinsman; and Beowulf himself is killed in the accomplishment of this last great feat. The Geats burn Beowulf's body and build a tower to house the ashes and the treasures he won from the dragon. Without their great king, the Geats ...
... young kinsman; and Beowulf himself is killed in the accomplishment of this last great feat. The Geats burn Beowulf's body and build a tower to house the ashes and the treasures he won from the dragon. Without their great king, the Geats ...
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... young companion that it's his father's sword that some Dane is wearing, and reminds him of how his father died fighting the Danes. The Heathobards won't be able to resist the opportunity for revenge, and the feast will end in more ...
... young companion that it's his father's sword that some Dane is wearing, and reminds him of how his father died fighting the Danes. The Heathobards won't be able to resist the opportunity for revenge, and the feast will end in more ...
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... young hero ungirded himself, Who was almighty God, strong and stouthearted. He took His stand on the lofty gallows, courageous in the sight of many, since He would free mankind.” The Cross speaks as if it is the hero's loyal retainer ...
... young hero ungirded himself, Who was almighty God, strong and stouthearted. He took His stand on the lofty gallows, courageous in the sight of many, since He would free mankind.” The Cross speaks as if it is the hero's loyal retainer ...
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... young man lets his beloved hawk go—by which sacrifice, the poet tells us, we can know the boy will not fail in the fight. The hawk flies to the woods; the boy steps to the battle. The earl's men are letting go of the pleasures and ...
... young man lets his beloved hawk go—by which sacrifice, the poet tells us, we can know the boy will not fail in the fight. The hawk flies to the woods; the boy steps to the battle. The earl's men are letting go of the pleasures and ...
الصفحة 40
... young man's dorm room is “blaming the victim.” The medieval advice to young women was quite different: If you want to stay chaste, expert opinion, hands down. eeeeee. don't get drunk: “For wine and youth doth Venus encrease / As men on ...
... young man's dorm room is “blaming the victim.” The medieval advice to young women was quite different: If you want to stay chaste, expert opinion, hands down. eeeeee. don't get drunk: “For wine and youth doth Venus encrease / As men on ...
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3 | |
References | 243 |
Index | 265 |
Back Cover | 285 |
Front Cover | 286 |
Title Page | v |
Copyright Page | vi |
Table of Contents | ix |
Introduction | xiii |
First Chapter | 3 |
References | 243 |
Index | 265 |
Back Cover | 285 |
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الصفحة 76 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.
الصفحة 72 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolick of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
الصفحة 75 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
الصفحة 134 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
الصفحة 132 - I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
الصفحة 203 - I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
الصفحة 203 - The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
الصفحة 85 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
الصفحة 94 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.