Adam RobertsinAdam’s Notebook·Sep 9, 2022Biblical hexametersA few days ago, on twitter, I suggested that though there have been a million translations of Homer into English, the most perfect English heroic hexameter has nothing to do with Homeric epic. …Saint Jerome5 min readSaint Jerome5 min read
Ol' Naive Art·Jan 12, 2022Saint Jerome sans Lion; De La Tour’s Reimagination of your Favorite Saintly ZaddyOf all the myriad portraits of St. Jerome, from skin and bones wildman with body-length beard to scholar surrounded by veritas, lion purring at his feet, this is the St. …Saint Jerome5 min readSaint Jerome5 min read
