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Paul Desmond died thirty years ago, May 30, 1977 -- Memorial Day in the US. A web site called puredesmond.ca has a biography, discography,...

As you can see from my Current Reading list, over on the right panel, I've given over historical research in order to ingest John Armstr...

Lloyd Alexander has died. We loved his books well, first read aloud at bed-time, then read and re-read to ourselves. We actually met him o...

I've been quiet about Monty Panesar for months now. He was not selected for the team that lost to Australia in the Ashes Cup test match...

We watched History Boys . One of its achievements is to reveal the greatness of Thomas Hardy, the poet. He wrote the following a couple of...

Here is another poem from Parnassus , the anthology compiled by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1874 ( pdf ). The Grasshopper , by Richard Lovelace (...

I'm fond of Corriente Textual . I can tell you no more about it than you see on the blog itself: interesting music, interesting artwork...

Here is another poem from Parnassus , the anthology compiled by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1874 ( pdf ). THE COUNTRY LIFE, TO THE HONOURED M. EN...

More from Emerson's Journals. It is 1833, he is 29 years old, on his travels in Italy. And so I left, on the twenty-third of April [183...

Here is another poem from Parnassus , the anthology compiled by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1874 ( pdf ). The Poet's Tale; The Birds of Killi...

The weather has turned. We've had most of the flowering fruit trees, dogwoods are coming strong, and the tulips are almost done. Sprin...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson. As he begins to write this, Emerson is getting ready to depart from Rome for Lombardy; he complet...

The papers are saying that no candidate will get a majority and there will be a run-off between the top contenders next month. The two fron...

One of my many castings-about for sources on Boulangism brought me to this page. What a find! JoyceImages.com . You can browse , chapte...

A Turkish newspaper, Sabah , has an article on the election in France in which this photo appears: The article, from Reuters, is about Nicol...

Here is another poem from Parnassus , the anthology compiled by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1874 ( pdf ). L'Allegro , by John Milton Hence, l...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: April 20, 1833 I have paid a last visit to the Capitoline Museum & Gallery. One visit is not ...

Here is another poem from Parnassus , the anthology compiled by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1874 ( pdf ). Nature . How young and fresh am I tonig...

From the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson April 19, 1835 It is a happy talent to know how to play. Some men must always work if they would b...

Rabobank has announced its line up for the Giro d'Italia and Joost is not in it. He was recovering from a crash in a recent race whe...