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		<title>How Literary Criticism Arises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an interview Noam Chomsky lately gave to The Atlantic (the interviewer is Yarden Katz): If you ask neuroscientists why understanding the brain is so difficult, they give you very intellectually unsatisfying answers, like that the brain has billions of cells, and we can&#8217;t record from all of them, and so on. Chomsky: There&#8217;s something to that. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=5276&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Autoportrait.&#8221; By Edouard Levé. Translated by Lorin Stein. A review in kind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autoportrait. By Edouard Levé. Translated by Lorin Stein. Dalkey Archive Press: Champaign, London, Dublin, 2012. A review by imitation.  For a conventional review at BookForum, click here. For an extract from the book, published in The Paris Review, click here, where you will also find some of Levé&#8217;s photographs. *   *   * I used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=5219&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There were no mirrors anywhere&#8221;: Notes on James Welch&#8217;s &#8220;Winter in the Blood&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james welch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After &#8220;taking a leak&#8221; in a borrow pit by the Earthboy place—the ditch in which his father First Raise froze to death some ten years earlier—the never-named narrator of Winter in the Blood (1974), by James Welch, tells us a thing or two about himself. &#8220;Coming home,&#8221; he says, &#8220;was not easy anymore. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4187&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Frost &amp; the Squirrels of Ann Arbor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1921, Robert Frost accepted a post at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. President Marion LeRoy Burton had tendered the offer, partly at the suggestion of the poet and dramatist Percy MacKaye, who held a similar post at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Frost was to be, for a year, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=5196&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Is Tired (of hearing it talked about)</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/07/10/poetry-is-tired-of-hearing-it-talked-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a bedroom occupation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tactile values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when i die]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the poet Mark Scott sits in. The Era of Casual Fridays thanks him. ≈   ≈   ≈ I’d start by talking about an attitude toward poetry, rather than about poetry itself (especially its former glories), because I think it’s chiefly an attitude toward poetry that prevents us from writing our own—if we want to. This attitude, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=5169&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;At the Draper&#8217;s&#8221;: &#8220;the last new note in mourning. . .&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/05/22/at-the-drapers-the-last-new-note-in-mourning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rhyme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satires of Circumstance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;At the Draper&#8217;s&#8221; appeared first in the Saturday Review for 16 May 1914, under the title: &#8220;How he looked in at the draper&#8217;s. . .&#8221; When Thomas Hardy prepared Satires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries With Miscellaneous Pieces, later the same year, he added the poem to a suite of twelve short lyrics published, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=5107&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mad Judy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/05/21/mad-judy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-natalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy placed &#8220;Mad Judy&#8221; among a section of Poems of the Past and Present (1902) sub-titled &#8220;Miscellaneous Poems.&#8221; It had appeared nowhere else previously. In a preface to the book, Hardy writes: Of the subject-matter of this volume which is in other than narrative form, much is dramatic or impersonative even where not explicitly so. Moreover, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=5050&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Must come and bide. . .&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 08:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[to an unborn child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to an unborn pauper child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Not to be born is, beyond all estimation, best; but when a man has seen the light of day, this is next best by far, that with utmost speed he should go back from where he came. For when he has seen youth go by, with its easy merry-making, what hard affliction is foreign to him, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4991&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The most interesting writing is that which does not quite satisfy the reader.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/05/08/the-most-interesting-writing-is-that-which-does-not-quite-satisfy-the-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[emerson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Indian Summer day, in 1865, Ralph Waldo Emerson arrived in Williamstown, Massachusetts, &#8220;unheralded by even so much as a paragraph in the county newspaper.&#8221; So reports Charles Johnson Woodbury (1844-1927), then a student at Williams College. &#8220;Mr. Emerson was to lecture the same evening,&#8221; Woodbury explains, so &#8220;the situation was awkward. But he soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4953&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drummer Hodge and the Cape of Good Hope</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/04/26/drummer-hodge-and-the-cape-of-good-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Drummer Hodge&#8221; (1899) may well be the best-known poem (in English, anyway) about the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Thomas Hardy wrote and published it within weeks of the outbreak of fighting. Before reading the poem here, I&#8217;ll sketch out the white mischief that brought a homely lad from the west of England to die &#8220;uncoffined&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4776&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Convergence of the Twain&#8221;: Thomas Hardy&#8217;s &#8220;Titanic&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/04/23/the-convergence-of-the-twain-thomas-hardys-titanic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4164&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You shall not make coups d&#8217;etat, &amp; afterwards explain &amp; pay&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2012/03/10/you-shall-not-make-coups-detat-afterwards-explain-and-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ralph waldo emerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reciprocity Treaty of 1875]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Too feckless or busy (or both) to keep house here lately, I&#8217;ll simply copy out a few remarks Ralph Waldo Emerson set down in his journals in the summer of 1866: America should affirm &#38; establish that in no instance should the guns go in advance of the perfect right. You shall not make coups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4716&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Night at the Movies in Newt Gingrich&#8217;s America (ca. 1994-98)</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/12/16/a-night-at-the-movies-in-newt-gingrichs-america-ca-1994-98/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B.: I wrote the following in the mid-1990s, shortly after Newt Gingrich, brandishing his Contract With America, led Congressional Republicans to victory in the mid-term elections of 1994. I never did anything with it. Writing about movies and politics is strictly avocational with me. And then Gingrich&#8217;s ouster in 1998 seemed somehow to have placed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4587&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Notes on &#8220;Ozymandias&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/10/23/some-notes-on-ozymandias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Percy Bysshe Shelley published his &#8220;Ozymandias&#8221; in The Examiner, edited by his friend Leigh Hunt, on January 11, 1818 (#524 of the journal). It appeared under the pen-name &#8220;Glirastes.&#8221; His friend Horace Smith published a sonnet on the same theme in The Examiner for February 1, 1818 (reprinted below). The following passage from Diodorus Siculus&#8216;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4349&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Buried above ground&#8221;: Notes on a Poem by William Cowper</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/10/19/buried-above-ground-notes-on-a-poem-by-william-cowper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[insanity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cowper&#8217;s Tirocinium (1784) proves that he formed a low opinion of English public schools.† The severity of his judgment upon institutions where religious instruction was scanty and temptations to vice abounded is explicable without supposing that he was himself unhappy. —Dictionary of National Biography‡ *   *   * William Cowper (1731-1800) (pronounced &#8220;Cooper&#8221;), born at Berkhampstead, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4290&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Untroubling and untroubled&#8221;: Notes on a poem by John Clare</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/08/05/untroubling-and-untroubled-notes-on-a-poem-by-john-clare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following anthology piece laid hold of me when I encountered it, some decades ago now, in Arthur Quiller-Couch&#8216;s Oxford Book of English Verse. It&#8217;s by John Clare, of course, born into poverty in 1793 in Helpstone, a village named as if somehow for the purpose of bringing about, in the ripeness of time, such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4212&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discoveries, etc.</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/05/18/discoveries-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 03:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[college hill review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick note today to acknowledge the new number of The College Hill Review, an excellent on-line quarterly edited by James Barsczc (et al). At the top of the page you&#8217;ll find a wonderful bit of work by the poet Mark Scott (author of Tactile Values and A Bedroom Occupation: Love Elegies): &#8220;Discoveries,&#8221; a collection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4155&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kinds of Rhyme: &#8220;She Walks in Beauty,&#8221; &#8220;Dulce et Decorum Est,&#8221; &#8220;Base Details,&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Blighters&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/05/08/kinds-of-rhyme-w-particular-attention-to-a-few-from-that-great-jangle-the-great-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 16:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A relatively short bit today, illustrating a few kinds of rhyme, including (for starters) &#8220;conjunctive&#8221; and &#8220;disjunctive&#8221; rhymes. Those terms are not, so far as I know, in common use. But they serve a good enough turn. (I dropped &#8220;disjunctive rhyme&#8221; into Google Books and, as of this writing, came up with two results; &#8220;conjunctive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4069&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are days for?</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/04/19/what-are-days-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Larkin wrote the following poem—as his editor Anthony Thwaite tells us—on August 3, 1953. He later collected it in The Whitsun Weddings (1964), where it appears between &#8220;Take One Home for the Kiddies&#8221; and &#8220;MCMXIV.&#8221; &#8220;Days&#8221; What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=4048&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die&#8221;: Hardy&#8217;s &#8220;Neutral Tones&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/03/17/the-deadest-thing-alive-enough-to-have-strength-to-die-hardys-neutral-tones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[darwinism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, a glance at a familiar anthology piece by Thomas Hardy: &#8220;Neutral Tones.&#8221; I&#8217;m not certain we usually do justice to one feature of the poem: namely, the fact that it tells us that &#8220;love deceives.&#8221; This distinction might (or might not) seem a matter of great consequence, but I will take it seriously (some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=3704&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s &#8220;unweeting way&#8221;; a few notes on Hardy.</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/02/04/gods-unweeting-way-a-few-notes-on-hardy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this entry I miss the New Year by a month or so. But laggard that I am, what excuse?—all the more given that Thomas Hardy collected the following poem first in Times&#8217;s Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909). &#8220;Now that the miscellany is brought together,&#8221; Hardy writes in his brief preface, &#8220;some lack of concord in pieces written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=3912&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Highest Liveliness (Frost, Burke, Derrida, Foucault, et al)</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2011/01/31/our-highest-liveliness-frost-burke-derrida-foucault-et-al/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The academy has generated a good deal of heat but still relatively little light in its discussion of &#8220;personality&#8221; in poetry, 30 years notwithstanding. We might do better by engaging more general problems of literary &#8220;authority,&#8221; about which, as it happens, Robert Frost is quite illuminating. We needn&#8217;t confine ourselves to Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=3893&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion is a very untenable ground: Thoreau&#8217;s Dead Horse</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/12/12/compassion-is-a-very-untenable-ground-thoreaus-dead-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<title>Who is the Emperor of Ice Cream?</title>
		<link>http://eraofcasualfridays.net/2010/12/09/who-is-the-emperor-of-ice-cream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[A High-Toned Old Christian Woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anecdote of the Jar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think readers of Wallace Stevens&#8216;s lyric &#8220;The Emperor of Ice Cream&#8221; often miss the full significance of the line: &#8220;Let be be finale of seem.&#8221; And by way of glossing it I here offer, in a sense, a &#8220;vocational&#8221; reading of the poem. Which is of course only one possible reading of it. Others [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=3808&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B.: Today I borrow shamelessly from the fine model Ian Wolcott sets up in his Marginalia series at The New Pslamanazar. Must my thoughts dwell night and day on my personal sins and blemishes, because I truly have them?—or may I sink and ignore them in order to be a decent social unit, and not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eraofcasualfridays.net&#038;blog=9628454&#038;post=3816&#038;subd=marksrichardson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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