I don’t usually use this Notebook for self-promotion, but self is the only mode of promotion that’ll happen…
In ‘In Three Days’ (in Men and Women, 1855) the speaker looks forward to seeing his beloved again — in…
You gathered force out of the world-tree’s hardness.If you stretched your hand forth, things might turn to stone.
1.A cloud sits on Beinn Bhàn’s summitlike a periwig.
Captain Cook named the whole Eastern portion of Australia ‘New South Wales’ when he arrived there…
D A Burns thinks John Donne ‘the only poet who has written about the flea in an amorous setting … “The Flea” elevates the feeding…
‘Every war is ironic,’ says Paul Fussell, in The Great War and Modern Memory, ‘because every war is worse…
[Previously within this very Notebook: The Bride of Lammermoor (1819); Kenilworth…
[After a bit of a haitus, I’m back to Scott blogging. Previously within this…
