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Name: Maya
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Name: mark escobar
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Comments:this is interesting. as a literature student i appreciate the juxtaposition of history and culture, dialogue between society and morality,conscience and faith.

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Friday, June 13th 2008 - 06:33:09 PM
Name: Jen
E-mail address: starskillrock1@yahoo.com
Comments:Hi! Just thought you'd be interested in knowing that contrary to the info on your Twain page (discussing the essay "In Defense of Harriet Shelley"), Shelley's hero was William Godwin, not Earl Godwin. William Godwin, a philosopher who believed in the power of reason (see his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice), and a former dissenting minister (who rarely even drank!), would have in NO WAY advocated either hedonism or the "abandonment of all self-discipline."

Thanks for listening,
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Wednesday, February 6th 2008 - 12:07:36 PM
Name: Shannon Boyd
E-mail address: velma007@mac.com
Comments:I was stumbling around trying to find information on Alcestis, written by Eruipides, when I found your site. It was a great summary, and even better, it was free to view. I am in a Greek and Roman Mythology course and have a huge fascination with the characters and their stories.

Thanks for your information, it's appreciated.
Monday, November 19th 2007 - 02:21:45 PM
Name: Spirochete (pseudonym, obviously)
E-mail address: docwithabox@yahoo.com
Comments: The desire to catalog in some truncated form those insights made during the reading of great literature has been chez moi, too. I have been creating a similar list for myself these past few months. It was exciting to see yours and know I'm not alone with my inability to retain all the details I'd like. Keep it up.
Tuesday, June 19th 2007 - 04:55:56 PM
Name: julie mccaig
E-mail address: jmmccaig@earthlink.net
Comments:in Under the willows, Lowell refers to an "alobench". Does this in any way refer to the latin "alo" to support, maintain, etc?
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Name: Libbi
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Wednesday, March 28th 2007 - 04:21:02 PM
Name: Heather
E-mail address: neel3500@fredonia.edu
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Wednesday, February 7th 2007 - 02:26:45 PM
Name: ZANE ADAMS
E-mail address: ADAMSZ@WYETH.COM
Comments:On your website titled "James Boswell: Life of Johnson, 1791" there is a picture of Boswell, Johnson, and Dr. Goldsmith - I found the same picture in my attic in an old frame. I believe it to be a lithograph.
Where can I find more info on this picture, such as title.
Wednesday, October 11th 2006 - 10:06:27 AM
Name: appie
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Wednesday, May 10th 2006 - 03:10:19 PM
Name: Lee B. Croft
E-mail address: Lee.Croft@ASU.EDU
Homepage URL: http://asu.edu/clas/dll/Slavic.htm
Comments:Arizona State University Slavic Section faculty here...teaching a survey course in 19th century Russian lit. I'm using the Penguin Nineteenth Century Russian Reader (George Gibian, ed) as a text and, as you likely know, it includes Turgenev's FIRST LOVE. I'm referring my students to your site...bravo!
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Name: Keith
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Wednesday, February 22nd 2006 - 07:07:25 PM
Name: Danny the Squirrel
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Wednesday, January 4th 2006 - 10:55:28 PM
Name: Tracey
E-mail address: Traceyann_1@charter.net
Comments:Hi there. Tracey here. 32. Graduating from Concord University, and just recently accepted to Marshall Graduate Program. It's been a long day, and I've been trying to argue a point with a fellow class mate. He says Harold set out for the same reasons you said...to get a foothold. I took it that Harold set out because of the blotch on the family name (stanza 3) and that he loved somene but alas...she does not love him back, nor does she want a domesticated life. Who is right?
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Monday, March 28th 2005 - 09:50:44 PM
Name: Roman
E-mail address: Hanus
Comments:I thoroughly enjoyed your review and it helped me to appreciate this write more than ever before. Thank you.
Friday, February 11th 2005 - 02:47:38 PM
Name: Fred Baker
Comments:Finally! This site's been down a LONG TIME! Thanks very much.
Friday, January 21st 2005 - 04:29:41 PM
Name: Lindsey Marino
E-mail address: lmarino@uci.edu
Comments:Hi, This has been a very helpful sight. I have an essay to write in my comparative literature class about this book. I appreciate all the info you have provided!! Thank you!
Monday, March 1st 2004 - 08:26:46 PM
Name: Hannah
E-mail address: moseleyhannah@hotmail.com
Comments:What about 'Song'? by Wordsworth
Saturday, February 21st 2004 - 12:28:27 PM
Name: Peter Hinton
E-mail address: hintonp@sympatico.ca
Comments:I was brought up on a farm in the north of England. In the living room were two needle points, which I subsequently inherited. My grandmother always called them: Paul and Virginia. The needle points show a young man and girl in a tropical background. They are both in "old" costumes.
I seems they could be thw Paul and Virginia in this book. The needle points are very old and have suffered from some fading. I am presently trying to make plans, stitch for stitch, of the two as best I can of their original state by looking at the back of the needlepoints. My grand mother told me they were done by older relatives.
I would much appreciate your comments.
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Monday, January 5th 2004 - 11:38:22 PM
Name: GD
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Mahler: The Man Who Was Never Born is a play that tells of the invasion of a man's soul...his will...and the relinquishing of his soul to nonexistence. In order to save one life, another life must be forfeited, but the payment is an obscenity...a young boy must travel back in time to avenge his father's death. A stranger from another universe...a troubled young man...and a beautiful woman seer will embark upon a journey to change the course of history, but the history of which world?
Wednesday, October 8th 2003 - 11:17:50 PM
Name: AMRIN
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Saturday, June 7th 2003 - 07:49:09 AM
Name: Autumin
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Comments:Jee whiz, thank you for your wonderful Byron page!
It is hard to find sites that do him justice.
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Anyhow. Its cool. Later. -autumin
Monday, March 31st 2003 - 06:49:06 PM
Name: Spencer Hill
E-mail address: Spen3h@aol.com
Comments:What a wonderful site! Thank you so much, David, for taking the time to organize all those epigrams! As it is my favorite book, now I have a great place to visit in order to search for quotes and share new perspectives. I also enjoy your ideas about the book.

Thank you again

Spencer T. Hill
Sunday, March 30th 2003 - 10:42:27 PM
Name: lija
E-mail address: liseaar@hotmail.com
Comments:Hi John were your biggest fans. I soooo love endymion . We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for making A-Level English Literature so mind exercising . Beauty might be a joy forever but your poems are not . PS we know your dead
Monday, March 24th 2003 - 08:37:47 AM
Name: Anon
Comments:Wow. Thank you so much for your synopsis and "tidbits" section on [i]The Way of All Flesh[/i]. It's so hard to find ANYTHING as thorough on this book as your work, I couldn't ever thank you enough.
Tuesday, February 25th 2003 - 08:22:43 PM
Name: Kara Kunik
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Wednesday, February 19th 2003 - 08:55:19 AM
Name: Thomas Scott
E-mail address: tjgs@hotmail.com
Comments:I thought your summary was ideal in its accurate and its mention of every major event. For the most part, it seemed that in your analysis you remained unbiased. The one example that sticks out in my mind is when you call the description of priests(712-749) a shameless plug. Now, of course it seems like a plug. We are barraged by plugs of that nature evryday in today's society. I think it might be important to consider the author's identity before you call it shameless. It might be that the author really believed what he wrote which, although it might still be a conspicuous plug, would not make it so base as to label it shameless.
Sunday, February 9th 2003 - 02:20:48 PM
Name: Avital
E-mail address: avital@animail.net
Comments:Sir,
I found your page and the part on Guy Mannering while researching for an essay I have to deliver. It sure is refreshing to find a page with someone's opinion on the work, as it is hard to find pages on Guy Mannering on the web in general ;)
I see you were pondering on the work's title. Well, I cannot quote any secondary literature to solve the problem here, since my essay will be cvering a totally different aspect. However, I was pondering on that, too. I suggest the following - Guy Mannering is a novel, no matter whether is is based on a simple and somewhat cheap chapbook's tale (which actually was Scott's source). The composition of Guy Mannering, as I see it, follows quite classic rules, besides the fact that this is a historic novel - we have an inner and an outer frame (in terms of narration), and hence the novel is called "Guy Mannering or The Astrologer", and not "The Life and Adventures of Harry Bertram". Harry Bertram is the hero character in this novel, but it is Guy Mannering whose predictions and whose presence embraces the novel and gives it its frame (this time on the symbolic level).
Talking about symbolism, did you pay attention to the names of characters, such as Harry Bertram, Guy Mannering, Meg Merrilies? I think there is more thought to this novel (keeping in mind the poor source Scott used) than one can assume even after a couple of readings.

In any way - thanks for this wesite and all the work you invested!
Avital
Sunday, February 9th 2003 - 12:03:21 PM
Name: Paul Reeve
E-mail address: paul@happeners.com
Homepage URL: http://www.happeners.com
Comments:A wonderful web page. Very detailed. It has been of great help with my Open University course. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Friday, February 7th 2003 - 03:48:49 AM
Name: kathy smart
E-mail address: kathyandrea@hotmail.com
Comments:just wanted to thank you for the quotes you found from strindbergs play, the father. you've significantly improved my essay! always in search for decent sites and am pleased to say this is one of them. may be interesting however to look at this particular play from the perspective wherein the captin is actually mad rather than laura being quite so vicious. or as deservid as, to be fair, the captain was trying to stop her have any say in her own childs future and then acting as if he has every right for such actions, which obviously he hasnt. anyway (can you tell im trying to gather my thoughts for an essay from a feminist perspective?)thanks again.
kathy
Monday, February 3rd 2003 - 08:22:58 AM
Name: jayant
E-mail address: jayantk@fastmail.fm
Comments:The Honorary Consul is my favourite book, and I found your page to be an insightful and highly interesting supplement to my reading. Thank you very much.
Monday, January 27th 2003 - 12:03:18 AM
Name: ananova
Comments:insighful reflections on Greene's work. Thanks! There's a lot of quoted on machismo...wonder if you could more about it. Curious about how you think this idea's shown in the book
But great job!
Tuesday, January 21st 2003 - 11:48:50 AM
Name: Thanx
E-mail address: N/A
Comments:This site rules!!!!
Tuesday, January 14th 2003 - 08:52:17 PM
Name: adam bailye
Comments:nice page.
Tuesday, January 14th 2003 - 12:38:48 AM
Name: Brad Nichols
E-mail address: nichobl@wku.edu
Homepage URL: http:// - none
Comments:Hello,
I was wandering the web in efforts of research when I ventured upon your website of William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell." I recently wrote a research paper for class, which discusses many of the same thoughts proposed by Blake (though I am new to philosophy is what interests me about it, I know very little of textbook nature and have never read Blake before, however I found many of the points in their similarity quite astonishing) If you would like to read my research/essay paper and provide me with feedback, which I would greatly enjoy and appreciate, please let me know. Here is are the topics discussed in my paper, and thank you for your time :
A tri-fold belief that the manifested innate non-secular, religion which is obviously apparent and that which is progressed through our mind, encompasses our life, inflicting or leaving an impression upon our souls through the same manner that man assimilates knowledge.
Diagrams, etc. - Really one would have to read the essay as any work of art or writing for full comprehension or analysis. I would greatly appreciate it, I am 21 years of age and am embarking upon new horizons for myself and maybe in the future for many others. Thank you and I hope to be hearing from you

Tuesday, December 10th 2002 - 03:12:44 PM
Name: Aisha Patel
E-mail address: aishap_@hotmail.com
Comments:this page is pretty good, although i was looking for more biographical information on Robert Frost nevertheless this page has some good insights! Good joB! keep up the good work!
-aishap_@hotmail.com
Sunday, December 1st 2002 - 01:57:01 PM
Name: David McDonald
E-mail address: dmd@txdirect.net
Comments:Thanks for providing a summary of Song of Roland and the context in which it was written. This is just what I wanted. My main interest is the Cantar de Mio Cid. I wanted to place the two works in relation to each other chronologically. Now I want to know what influence the Chanson de Roland may have had on the poem of the Cid. You asked for suggestions. I found no reference to the Cid in this site; I suggest you include it.
Thanks,
David McDonald
Wednesday, November 27th 2002 - 09:16:30 AM
Name: Nienke
E-mail address: N.C.van.Oeveren@student.rug.nl
Comments:Thank you very, very much for your summary: I needed it so badly.

Greetings of a Dutch student,
Nienke
Wednesday, November 20th 2002 - 05:22:22 AM
Name: John Smith
E-mail address: J_Smith@AOL.com
Homepage URL: http://don't have one
Comments:very good website
i found it very helpful
Wednesday, October 23rd 2002 - 04:54:12 PM
Name: Kayla Heidrick
E-mail address: CuttieK8@aol.com
Comments:I used your web page to help me find information on John Donne. His poems are fun and entertaining to read and I like how they are about love. I am a Sophomore (10) in Lawrence, Kansas. Your reviews helped me also to pick out the best poems i wanted to read and review myself about. I chose The Expiration mainly because it was rather shorter and easier to understand.

Thanks!!

*Kayla
Thursday, October 17th 2002 - 11:41:32 AM
Name: Hye Seung Kim
Comments:I very much enjoy nature writing and I am pleased to see your Thoreau and Frost. You have introduced me to Wordsworth and I now think he is my favorite poet. I look forward to his next era of poems appearing on your site in the future.

I would recommend some other nature writers too, such as Emerson and the recent book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Best regards,

Hye Seung.
Monday, September 23rd 2002 - 12:00:00 AM
Name: Eileen Ciccotelli
E-mail address: eetelli@aol.com
Comments:I first became introduced to H C Bosman while on safari at the Tau Game Lodge in the Western Transval area of South Africa. I was guest of a newly acquired friend who was born and raised in the area and he was extremely delighted to see the room-copy of "The Collected Works of CH Bosman." In the evenings, he read the stories to me in his heavy Dutch/German/South African voice and broke only to explain some meaning of a word. During the readings, we would stop to listen to an apporaching lion, tiger, hippo, etc. which gathered at the wateringhole just outside our french doors of our private chalet. We knew that somthing was approaching because the deafening sound of the frogs would stop abruptly.... silence .... and gradually would build up again.


Monday, September 16th 2002 - 11:45:54 AM
Name: levon
E-mail address: levonm80@aol.com
Homepage URL: http://n/a
Comments:A wonderful web page. Very informative. It helped me a lot in class. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Wednesday, September 11th 2002 - 10:38:14 PM
Name: Malcolm
E-mail address: go_u_sharks@yahoo.com
Comments:Found this great site while researching "The History of Mr Polly" by H G Wells. Apart from the section on Polly I have only skimmed the rest of the site, but will continue to look regularly.

The summary and review of "The History of Mr Polly" were very well done. It has been my favourite novel since I studied it in High School over 40 years ago and I have read it many, many times since then. Even as a student I recognised myself in the main character and sure enough my life has followed a similar pattern. I failed to take the story as a warning or to learn from what I read. I will not consider suicide, as did Mr Polly, but I think I had better hurry up and find my "Potwell Inn" !!

You comments regarding "when to read" the book were also intuitive and describe the times in my life when I have read the book accurately. I am reading it again now !! Thank you.


Sunday, August 18th 2002 - 10:57:40 PM
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