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apilgriminnarnia.com
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| | | | | One of the earlier biographers of C.S. Lewis, Chad Walsh once said that although Lewis was not a poet of greatness, he was (and remains) an interesting poet. This observation is relevant for many of the early-to-mid-20th century authors I like to read, many of whom wrote poetry that is now nearly forgotten. Even outside... | |
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calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com
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| | | | | From Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneanus (1665). The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1666). What, said the Empress, can any mortal be a creator? Yes, answered the spirits, for every human creature can create an immaterial world fully inhabited by immaterial creatures, and populous of immaterial subjects, such as we are, and all... | |
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fortnightlyreview.co.uk
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| | | | | Stephen Wade: In the early eighteenth century authors became something reasonably close to what they are now: hard up, desperate and alone. But they could add that word to themselves and set up a stall, or at least a desk, somewhere in a tiny attic or cellar, and work day and night. The profession of jobbing scribbler became a possibility, and we are fortunate that the diary of one such early literary man has come down to us. This is the work of Abraham Poges, epic poet and social nuisance. | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | Alexandra Harris, Weatherland Weatherland is really long, and took me over a week to slog through. She has taken the whole of English literature and pressed it lightly through a filter marked 'weather'. Good things emerge, but my quarrel is not with what she found, but the predictability of the works she looked at. Anglo-Saxons,... | ||
