![]() Translating gobbets of Anglo-Saxon was compulsory undergraduate gowns were to be worn at his lectures and for all exams. The head of the department was Gwynn Jones – a distinguished scholar of Norse sagas and recipient of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon. The NY Times called it the Bible of Women’s Liberation and TIME magazine called her the “Mao Tse-tung of Women’s Liberation”. ![]() Leavis had put D.H.Lawrence on a pedestal. I had arrived at Cardiff – Prifysgol Caerdydd – at a time when the point of English Studies seemed to have been how to teach students how to read in order to know the universal truths to be imparted by great literature. crowd at University College Cardiff would be making of it. ![]() I distinctly recall wondering what the Eng.Lit. The world has not been quite the same since.īy the time I got around to reading it I was already up to my ears teaching. It unleashed the fury of outraged conservative critics and inspired and helped propel a whole social movement. In 1970 Millett dropped a huge the-personal-is-poltical rock into the male-centric pond of literary theory. It’s under fifteen minutes from my house and today I went to pay tribute to its most famous resident – Kate Millett who died in Paris last week. ![]() Cows graze and the corn is ripe for harvest. There are pockets of Poughkeepsie that still have a rural look and feel. It hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Alice Neel 1970 on commission from TIME Magazine. ![]()
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