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2 Dec 2013, 8:59 pm by JD Hull
--Samuel Johnson, commenting on the life work of John Dryden (1631-1700), English poet, critic and playwright. [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 6:21 pm by Melissa L. Greipp
The speech was in honor of poet Robert Frost. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 2:51 pm by Ken White
We've seen it happen with a glassy-tongued poet and an over-sensitive lighting company that doesn't like negative reviews and even Ecuador, and we've even been the subject of a bogus DMCA demand ourselves filed by a wire-fraudster extortionist. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 8:15 am
This is what an Icelandic poet told me....Full text at the link, but it's better in video form (if you can handle all those tiny little dots): [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 7:48 pm by JD Hull
An essayist at heart, American novelist, poet and playwright James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote his experimental fourth novel about the life of Leo Proudhammer, a black stage actor raised in Harlem who moves to Greenwich Village. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 2:58 pm by David Friedman
The poet Ibn Harma performed before the caliph, and so delighted was the Prince of the Muslims that he asked the poet to name his reward." [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 7:27 am by Ken White
Back in February I talked about how "On Press Inc." was indulging in bumptious legal threats and jibber-jabber against people who quoted the "epic" "poetry" of "poet" "Sean Shane," including his "greatest" "work" "Tongues of Glass," which goes something like this: if only our tongues were made of glass all of my medication would slide down so easily and i could use windex to get rid of the taste of wax fruit when i forget again and try to eat it because it's motherfucking deceptive it looks… [read post]
12 Nov 2013, 11:35 am by Legal Writing Prof
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.... [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 8:59 pm by JD Hull
Poet, physician, Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 3:28 am by Broc Romanek
Fell offered the student absolution if the student could translate on the spot this epigram from the Roman poet Martial: "Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere - quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te." [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 6:22 am by Simon Fodden
Secondly, It is, Sine exemplo, beyond all Examples, whether in Fact or Fiction, even of the tragick Poets, who did beat their Wits to represent the most fearful and horrible Murders. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Elden addresses a range of historical, political, and literary texts and practices, as well as a number of key players—historians, poets, philosophers, theologians, and secular political theorists—and in doing so sheds new light on the way the world came to be ordered and how the earth’s surface is divided, controlled, and administered. [read post]
2 Nov 2013, 10:06 am by David Cheifetz
For now, it is worth commemorating a marvelous mind if an accidental poet, and also remembering that there are reasons Plato cautions against poetry. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 1:23 pm by Harold O'Grady
The son of a minor Scottish nobleman who skirted charges of treason, Mansfield rose through English society to become a member of its ruling aristocracy, confidential advisor to two kings, and friend to statesmen, poets, artists, actors, bishops, soldiers, and members of the nobility. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 5:44 am by familoo
  A poet famously suggested that ‘Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three’. [read post]