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Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals

The LRB Podcast

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The Importance of Beauty in Poetry

I think in terms of like our desire to create the cute, to create dogs that can't breathe but look in chanting. Again, I think that has always been with us. But I think it is probably accelerated by our capacity and indeed by our watchiness of this generation of the last 50 years of the internet. It's really interesting just to think about the ways that the ways we can see things do influence the world. The way pastoral poetry from those 15th and 16th cemeteries imagined the farm as a symbolic retreat and greenery and laschenate,. you know, spencers, column count, come home again. This vision of the pastoral England was entirely disingen

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