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Q: Is Edmund Burke a romantic or an Enlightenment empiricist?

StarckmanIs Edmund Burke a romantic glorifying the flows of passions, or an Enlightenment empiricist who favors reason as the guard rail of passions (that nonetheless Burke saw, as an empiricist, as natural and necessary)? I can really find both of these yet very competing interpretations. Here simply two...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:37
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Q: "Pull it away and slide mine out" in "Wuthering Heights"

MT MTESKIn chapter 29 of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, after Edgar Linton passed away, Mr. Heathcliff revealed his evil secrets to Mrs. Dean: She (Miss Cathy) scornfully withdrew. In her absence I began to beg for Zillah’s place at the Heights, offering to resign mine to her; but he would suffer it...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
16:41
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Q: What is the relationship betwee Christina Rossetti's poem "Jessie Cameron" and Lady Rachel Butler's novel "Jessie Cameron"?

Peter ShorWhat is the relationship between Christina Rossetti’s poem Jessie Cameron, first published in her 1866 collection The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems, and the 1857 novel Jessie Cameron, A Highland Story, by the Lady Rachel Butler. In the poem, Jessie Cameron and her suitor both drown. While th...

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User1865345
User1865345
17:00
‘Transcendental beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy wins him TS Eliot poetry prize
> “Written in the aftermath of grief, Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy brings us poems that revel in minutiae but also brave the large questions in a lyric sequence of transcendental beauty,” read a statement from the judging panel, which was made up of poets Khalvati, Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan.
 
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Feeds
Feeds
18:45
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Q: 2024: a year in moderation

JNat It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently t...

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verbose
verbose
20:32
@Bookworm Pull it away and slide into the HNQ
 
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Gareth Rees
Gareth Rees
21:46
@PeterShor I don't think "objective correlative" is quite the same thing. Eliot's example is the death of Lady Macbeth, which explains Macbeth's grief: "the words of Macbeth on hearing of his wife’s death strike us as if, given the sequence of events, these words were automatically released by the last event in the series." Eliot constrasts this with the emotions and actions of Hamlet, which do not seem to be fully explained by the events of the play.
Here's one of my favourite examples of displacement of description, from The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian:
> “Well, the fact of the matter, Stephen,” said Jack, staring at the cow, “the fact of the matter is that she refuses the bull. He is game enough, oh Lord, yes; but she will have nothing to say to him. Then he flies into a hellfire passion, bellowing and tearing up the ground; and we go without milk.”
verbose
verbose
22:25
Donne's Songs and Sonnets are neither. Discuss.

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