The Restoration and the eighteenth century brought great changes to islands of Great Britain. It was a time that witnessed Act Union which joined Scotland Wales Britain in 1707. achieved political stability commercial prosperity. New standards politeness social behavior prevailed distinguish between civilized vulgar citizens. hierarchy order helped people participate contribute emergence Britis...

This article aims to show how Dante Alighieri was ‘used’ in Renaissance Polish literature. known by intellectuals first of all as a political theorist. Only the second half 14th century did writers start refer him great poet (Długosz). However, rather than read and topic character demonstrate excellence vernacular poetry. Andrzej Trzecieski Younger, fact, wrote couple epigrams his friend Mikoła...

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination touched the American poet Walt Whitman and inspired him to create superb elegy "When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd." While poem mourns death, also suggests that death is not something be afraid of. This paper examines how shows speaker's change from an intense feeling of grief a reconciliation with truths life death. Through close analysis poem's imag...

This series of reflections explores historical experiences disruption and migration through the self-elegy Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish memoir German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin both lived diasporic lives adhered to a notion truth as an aural phenomenon. work takes performed poem told story sites explore suspension reemergence memories, termed imagistic precipitates experience, ex...

Shahid Yusuf's review of the World Development Reports (WDRs) is elegant and insightful, but also wistful and nostalgic. He clearly believes that the WDRs have known better days, and I agree with him. He is positive about the future, but I am not sure I agree; I think the problems that affl ict the WDRs have deep causes that will not soon go away. In my comments, I shall follow the same general...