So how have I been responding to all these radical ideas developed during the Romantic period? What has caught my attention as being especially relevant to my own experience and my own period of history? Now is my chance to express something of my reaction to all I have been reading, either in the form…
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Nineteenth Century Literature 2017
Hello All, We have had a wonderful start to our Autumn semester in Sydney: temperatures are still hovering around the mid twenties but we have had lashings of rain which has kept our burgeoning bush alive and free from the ravages of late summer bush fires! And for me it is just wonderful to be…
Thomas Carlyle’s Wonderful Words Celebrating the Continuing Importance of the Printed Word
At the State Library Today, we also genuflected in front of these amazing words from that extraordinary 19th Century wordsmith, the historian Charles (to whom Dickens dedicated his Hard Times). To anyone who still reads and benefits from the written word, these words carved in Sydney sandstone inside the vestibule to the Mitchell Library will have a…
Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Sundry Other Literary Delights
With third years I went last night to see John Bell playing Falstaff in the complete production of Henry IV Part One and Part Two at the Sydney Opera House. As was said in a recent review, this was John Bell’s best performance of his career. This was an amazing, energizing production that brought Falstaff…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
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