Austen's early fiction is outrageous, inventive,
bumptiously irreverent, and even (as she herself might say) inelegant; most of Gillray's visual satires are all that and more, bloody and violent, scabrous and scatological and even revolting.
She's put in the time!" It was a perfect experience of the work,
bumptiously unspooling the entire visit and highlighting the oeuvre's off-kilter poise.
It moved next into core high-school courses where districts found themselves with teacher shortages--math, science, foreign languages--and has been growing
bumptiously, and in a dozen directions, ever since.
are closer to Schopenhauer than to Sade." That is, while the fictional universe of the Marquis de Sade is "
bumptiously evil, crammed with extravagant pain and exuberant torturers, and the greatest of these is God," the universe of Schopenhauer--as are Swinburne's Proserpine poems--"is godless, [and] its torment [is] a weary weight sustained by the blind will to live, which we must learn to deny" (p.
Absent are most of the expected vices and virtues of the young poet: no technical howlers; no tears for a lost garden of earthly delights; no ranting and raving against the established society; no
bumptiously imperative subjective moods.
