Conservative defenses of Bush’s record on counter-terrorism–”setting aside 9-11…” –call for Jane Austen’s exquisite irony.
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John Wilmot would label Lance Armstrong as a “knave of the first rate” for his doping and bullying.
John Wilmot would understand the obsession of America’s gun extremists.
Perhaps some of the conservative antipathy to Obama is because he is seen as just taking over when he promised to work for social justice.
Sex without love, the subject of several sex comedies this past summer, was also an issue explored by poets and playwrights in the British Restoration.
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John Wilmot’s poetry stands as a warning against living only for self.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Once again the poetry of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is proving to be a jolt to my students. I always start my course “Couples Comedy in the Restoration and 18th Century” with this 17th century libertine, and the poetry does not hold back. Rochester freely uses the “f” word, [...]
