Catherine Eisner

Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 June 2025

Walt Whitman’s Private Anthem Exalts a Certain Breed of Liberated Man Desirous They should Together Sing His America.

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‘May the glory of that pinnacle hold free men untramelled, free and unenthralled.’ Walt Whitman by Ralph Steadman from  Ambit   176   Spring...
Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Found! The TRUE reason for the decline of titled privilege.

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So Death Duties were NOT the undoing of landed aristocracy – ‘ It is not generally known that Wilde, by fitting the duchesses in his comedi...
Sunday, 25 February 2024

The Utility of Art as a Social Function according to Heinrich Böll

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Or should that be The Utility of Art at a Social Function ? I think I’ve written all I want to say on the topic of the Non-Utility of Art, ...
Thursday, 4 March 2021

Capital Murder: Emily Dickinson and the Case of the Missing Metonyms

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Capital murder? Yes. In two senses.  I refer to the notorious forgery of an Emily Dickinson poem fabricated by the homicidal fraud ster and...
Thursday, 11 February 2021

The grievous worries of Gissingites . . . ‘You have to promise me to suppress your redundant auxiliary verbs . . . ’ (To Have and Have Not, Part 2.)

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I fear the following reflections rehash a Case of Unfinished Business inasmuch as a little while ago I challenged  those assumptions that ...
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Catherine Isolde Eisner
Author of Sister Morphine, Salt Publishing 2008. Published also by Ambit, MsLexia, Stand, Strange Attractor journal and by Arts Council Poetry Collection website overseen by London’s South Bank Centre. Published 2011, Listen Close to Me: Hidden Lives of Love, Madness, Murder, Loss and Deception (Salt Modern Fiction). Published 2014, A Bad Case and Other Adventures of Disturbed Minds (Salt Modern Fiction).
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