Monthly Archives: July 2015

“This is realism”: Lessons from Poetry

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Lee

Langdon Hammer describes the stone that Yeats’s fisherman sits on (in the poem “The Fisherman”) as “resistant” and “non-ideal, that is, real”. This equation of “non-ideal” with its common meaning of “imperfect” (as in “my new flat isn’t ideal…”), while … Continue reading →

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Notes on Honoré Daumier, Don Quixote (1868)

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Lee

He’s instantly recognisable, though he has no face. He has no face because he doesn’t know who he is. He’s Don Quixote, famous for his confused identity. In this blurred image, he really could be a knight-errant. His armour could … Continue reading →

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