The phrase is ubiquitous. It is the subject if numerous memes. It adorns construction barriers in Disney’s theme parks. Walt speaks it in “Celebrate the Magic,” a short series of clips that used to precede the fireworks at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. I came across it an article published just today. Moving from the
This semester I find myself, even more than usual, thinking about literary history. In addition to a new seminar for English majors, “Disney’s Victorians,” I am teaching the first half of our department’s two-part British literature survey. So while I’m partly in my Victorian wheelhouse, I’m also far afield in British literature from the Middle
Nicholas Roe, John Keats: A New Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. John Batchelor, Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find. London: Chatto and Windus, 2012. 2012 was a good year for biographies. In November I wrote about a new biography of Dickens, discussing it alongside a couple other Dickens biographies that challenge the
