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The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan

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The Marriage of Charles Ryder

In "King Lear," Charles Ryder imagines that he can call down a storm. He says it's like the scene in the middle of King Lear, where Lear has been stripped of everything by his two daughters. But once Charles has children, he's never actually claims them. It's always Celia's children, her children, the children,. Never my children."

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