Piero Pierini

Every eleven rams yield a tod of 28lbs, worth 21 shillings = £143.

THE TIME BOYS REACHED THE UPPER CLASSES, IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO SPEAK ENGLISH IN SCHOOL.

BEING MYOPIC MYSELF, I SUSPECT THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS MYOPIC.

AND MEN LIKE RAVENOUS FISHES WOULD FEED ON ONE ANOTHER.

Learning through Imitation

Our gift for seeing similarity is nothing but a weak rudiment of the once powerful compulsion to become similar and also to behave mimetically. And the lost faculty of becoming similar extended far beyond the narrow perceptual world in which we are still capable of seeing similarities.

The best way of becoming a literary critic, then, is to read widely in the work of other literary critics, while also paying careful attention to the literary critic’s object of study.

One might think of the literary critic as a kind of empathetic chameleon, disinterestedly capable of extending imaginative sympathy to the range of human actors, conditions and motivations that are represented in literary texts.

cover for particular interests (of class, race or gender) that the literary critic will (consciously or unconsciously) bring to bear on a text.

The Republic of Plato (428–ca. 347 BC) is primarily a philosophical treatise that takes the form of a dialogue in which Plato’s teacher, Socrates (ca. 470–399 BC), is a main chara