"On 'Middle Passage"": excerpts of essays analyzing Haydon's deeply ironic "anti-epic"

"I warmly second the advice of the wisest of men—"Don't be ambitious; don't be at all too desirous to succes…"

"We need to get a better idea of how many people are discharged from hospital and a better understanding of …"

"As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and s…"

"The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is l…"

"If the opposing of one cock to fight with another may be justly esteemed a national barbarism, what shall b…"

"Subjective confidence in a judgement is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgement is…"