The Lover's Progress Fiction Faced with his own mortality

Faced with his own mortality

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1974) was a Canadian poet and political activist who came to be known as "God’s Red Poet"

The Lover's Progress Fiction Faced with his own mortalityDavid Solway opts for a bawdier approach to the lyric in The Lovers Progress. He models his lyric sequence on William Hogarths famous series of paintings, The Rakes Progress (1733 35), and transports the rakish protagonist at the centre of Hogarths narrative into the twenty first century. Solway makes the rake a cruiser of bars, women, and philosophies, as well as a dabbler in poetry. Perpetually in motion, the lover travels from Canada to Greece and