{"id":1634,"date":"2010-12-05T23:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=1634"},"modified":"2011-01-09T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:53:06","slug":"about-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?page_id=1634","title":{"rendered":"Literary Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Literary Writings<\/h2>\n<p>Some random writings on literary topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1637\">Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s <em>Mass<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was a classic of my youth.\u00a0 I jumped at the chance when the Baltimore Symphony asked me to write a series about it.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote my dissertation on <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1640\">Kingsley Amis<\/a>, and was glad of the opportunity to look back when the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> asked.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">William Shakespeare knew the uses of history better than most.\u00a0 In his play Richard II, he crafted a legal argument out of the elements of history &#8212; and\u00a0the history\u00a0he knowingly changed mattered as much as what he preserved.<em>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1642 \">Richard II<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1642 \">: Shakespeare&#8217;s Legal Brief<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Backstabbing poets, critics hiding behind pseudonyms, politics and revenge: all part of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/?p=1645 \">The Peter Bell Phenomenon<\/a>, an 1819 literary free-for-all edited and brought back to life for your laughter. In this critical edition of a pompous flop, Wordsworth\u2019s terminally uninspired <em>Peter Bell<\/em>, and parodies of it by Shelley (<em>Peter Bell the Third<\/em>), Byron (<em>Epilogue<\/em>), Keats\u2019 friend John Hamilton Reynolds (<em>Peter Bell: A Lyrical Ballad<\/em>), Walter Scott\u2019s son-in-law John Gibson Lockhart (<em>Benjamin the Waggoner<\/em>), and one still unknown literary assassin (<em>The Dead Asses<\/em>), experience mudslinging as only the elegant Romantic poets knew how to do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Writings Some random writings on literary topics: Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s Mass\u00a0was a classic of my youth.\u00a0 I jumped at the chance when the Baltimore Symphony asked me to write a series about it. I wrote my dissertation on Kingsley Amis, and was glad of the opportunity to look back when the Wall Street Journal asked. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634\/revisions\/1648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebigpictureandthecloseup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}