Abstract
Dombey and Son, probably Dickens’s most underestimated work, has important points in common with Blake’s ‘A Little Boy Lost’ (SE), and it is worth quoting that poem in full, as an introduction to the novel.
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© 1997 Dominic Rainsford
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Rainsford, D. (1997). From Wish-Fulfilment to Ascetic Flatness. In: Authorship, Ethics and the Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377516_6
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