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The short era of Gingrich
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Arecent mass mailing contained a poignant personal plea. "Dear
Friend," the letter said. "I need your help and I need it now."
Help with what, dear friend? "This is the chance we've been
working toward for a lifetime. We must not squander it."
The letter, dated "Monday morning," was from someone whose life has
lately seen more Monday mornings than Saturday nights: the leader
formerly known as Newt.
Representative Gingrich (R-Guillotine) begged his correspondents
for "honest, candid opinions on the enclosed Republican Majority 1997
Critical Issues Survey." The questions were aimed at getting ...
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Birth of Lord George Gordon December 26th, 1751.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Huntly and subsequently Dukes of Gordon, had a long and colourful history...thought all of them were mad. Lord George Gordon, the youngest child of the 3rd...against Roman Catholics. Lord George's own forebears had been Catholics...
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Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero' and 'Sardanapalus'.(dramatist Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
; ...journals, all dramatic scripts designed for production, in London theaters in particular, were obliged to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's office no later than two weeks before performance in order to be inspected for inflammatory radical sentiments...
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'Don Juan,' "a problem, like all things." (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature
; From its first printing in 1819 till now--nearly two centuries later--readers have disputed the big ideas and real values of Don Juan. Its problematical genius appears to resist all ideological interpretations and themes. Scanning its ottava rimas, we sense something difficult to recognize and
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The Byronic in Jane Austen's persuasion and "Pride and Prejudice".(Lord George Gordon Byron)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen engaged closely with Byron's poetry and drew inspiration from some of his most popular poems. The first part of the article focuses on Romantic, and specifically Byronic, undercurrents
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"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on immortality.(Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature
; "What is PoetryThe Feeling of a Former world and a Future." Byron, Ravenna Journal Elizabeth Longford affirms a commonly accepted view that Byron "mocked the idea of Christian immortality" by citing one of his best-known letters on the subject: "And our carcases, which are to rise again, are they
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Byron and the Scottish Spenserians.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism
; Poems in Series "I SING THE SOFA," BEGINS THE TASK. COWPER WAS ASSIGNED THIS TOPIC by a lady fond of blank verse: "He obeyed; and having much leisure, connected another subject with it; and pursuing the train of thought, to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length,
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Byron and Expatriate Nostalgia.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism
; "And Loch-na-gar with Ida looked o'er Troy" --The Island NOSTALGIA IS A CONCEPT ENDURINGLY FASHIONABLE IN BYRON STUDIES--suggestively discussed in J. Drummond Bone's "Byron, Scott, and Scottish Nostalgia," and recently explored to fine effect in Stephen Cheeke's Byron and Place. (1) The
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Introduction: Byron's Scots and Byron's Scotland.(George Gordon, Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism
; "WE HAVE BEEN FEEDING ON STRAWBERRIES AND MILK AND HAVE made jam of them but our sugar ran out and we were forced to have done We hear the cuckoo all day long Thus we could almost imagine ourselves at home." This description of high tea in the Himalayas, a repast taken regularly after climbing some
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The grifter: first he robbed one of the great robber barons of New York's gilded age. Then he was abducted in Fort Garry. Lord Gordon lived large. But there was a price to pay.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
; ...wealthy aristocrat, why shouldn't Lord Gordon Gordon be welcome in the homes of leading...the Wizard of Wall Street. Lord Gordon seems to have been really Hubert...the bogus lord, he told Mayor George A. Brackett of Minneapolis. And...
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A conversation on Byron with Jason Shinder.(George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron)(Interview)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review
; FROM BEPPO 'Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout All countries of the Catholic persuasion, Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about, The people take their fill of recreation, And buy repentance, ere they grow devout, However high their rank, or low their station, With fiddling,
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