POETRY (Literary form), LITERARY criticism, LONDON (England) in literature, IRONY in literature, MASCULINITY in literature
Abstract
This paper reflects on the role of London as male Beloved in Whitney's 'Last Wyll and Testament'. Such a characterization of the city, the paper argues, has two consequences. First, it complicates and provides an important challenge to the ubiquitous personification of London as female in early modern England. Second, this dynamic between female speaker and male Beloved encourages a reconsideration of Whitney's agency in the poem - often celebrated as forceful - as more consciously ironic (although, ultimately, all the more compelling and effective because of it). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Reports on the popularity of the Florence Nightingale Museum in London. Grant of three awards in 1989 for its outstanding contribution to tourism; Uniqueness of the museum; Existence of a resource center in the museum that has a significant archive of Nightingale papers.
LITERARY criticism, POETRY (Literary form), SCIENCE in literature, SEVENTEENTH century, INTELLECTUAL life
Abstract
Poetry criticism on references to the weighing of air in Book IV of the epic poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton is presented. The author speculates on a possible association between Milton and natural philosopher Robert Boyle, who in 1657 built and air pump and published his experiments in the paper "New Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects." Boyle's presentation of the pump to the British Royal Society and his and Milton's membership in the educated British community of the time is noted.