Category: Literature
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Gulliver’s Travels Approaches 300: The Houyhnhnms in a Hidden Field and the Dog-Walking Yahoo
On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, a horse in a hidden field near my village reminded me of Swift’s Houyhnhnms, and of what six years of working from home had turned me into.
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The British Periodical Essay: Johnson, Boswell & the Rest
Tidying my bookshelf led me to Marr’s Periodical Essayists of the Eighteenth Century – and down a rabbit hole into the British periodical essay itself. From Johnson’s Rambler to Boswell’s secret Rampager, discover the strange, brief, brilliant fifty-year genre that shaped English prose, and the writers who made it.