Morphosis
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Localism
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There always has been localist literature; plenty of topographic specificity in 18th-century poetry, or (more to my point, here) a great dea...
Monday, 11 February 2013
On This Day, 2002
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Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest . Byron. It's usually a good idea that the heart be moved, from time to ...
Sunday, 10 February 2013
What is the earliest use of the term "best-seller"?
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According to the OED 'Bestseller' is a relatively recent term, first recorded in print in 1889 in the Kansas City newspaper The Kans...
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Saturday, 2 February 2013
Landor's De Papavere Invento (1847)
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Hora, ut mos mihi, pomeridiana Flaventem volui videre messem, Atque corpora magna rusticorum Instaurata cibo, quiete, lusu, Et laeta omn...
Friday, 1 February 2013
Department of Predictions, 1950
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I picked up a cheap 2nd-hand copy of Thomas Merton 's Selected Poems (1950), with a foreword by Robert Speaight . The poetry (which I ...
Saturday, 26 January 2013
George Lamb on Catullus
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The poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, tr. with notes by G. Lamb (2 vols, 1821), 1:xxxvi-xli: It is remarkable that, in speaking of Catull...
Friday, 25 January 2013
Thoughts on reviews, 1808
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From the preface to Francis Hodgson, Lady Jane Grey: a tale, in two books: with miscellaneous poems, in English and Latin (1808), viii-ix: ...
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