The Lover's Progress Fiction The Madness of Planets (2015)

The Madness of Planets (2015)

and the Indo-Pak heritage of story-telling

Faced with his own mortality

as Ormsby also notes

The Lover's Progress Fiction The Madness of Planets (2015)David 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