THE WARDEN OF ENGLISH.(Review) From: Harper's Magazine | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Davenport, Guy | COPYRIGHT 2001 Harper's Magazine Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Around each pole of Jupiter, largest of the planets, sits a halo of wildly agitated strips of light twisting and juggling, shooting up and darting down. Earth, too, wears these lights, the northern manifestation of which the French astronomer Pierre Gassendi gave a Latin name to in the seventeenth century: aurora borealis, "northern dawn." To the Lapps, who see them most often, they are "a fierce and powerful presence," and you will be fried in your boots if you look directly at th...

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