Published 2008. A typical king; Killed everybody who got in his way; A typical fat slob of a king; Out to get his own greedy needs met; Uses every individual who crossed his path; More often than not, slap happy drunk; Seen on numerous occasion dancing amongst the moon lit paths; Often times his...
I don't know why, but I was very surprised about how good this turned out to be. The story is a poem set in the Arthurian world and written by an anonymous author in the 14th century. The story is very tight and well developed. The poetry is alliterative, which I thought might have sounded like a...
Published 2005. I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was—and methought I had—but man is but a patch’d fool, if he will of...
Published 2008. “Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life” (title of a 2002 book by Fintan O’Toole). The 23rd of April is almost upon us (*). Those of you who have been following my diatribes on this blog, know that I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Last year I put my Shakespeare proje...
This was one of our books for Brit Lit and I'm so glad I was introduced to it. Sir Gawain is an interesting character that really adds to the King Arthur universe. It was originally written in Middle English so modern readers are reading it in translation but this is a particularly good one. It's...
[Nota bene: I have combined the reviews of three books into one and used the same review for each. So if you have read one, you have read all three.] Meleager brings you his lamp, O Venus, For it knows how he celebrates you in the dark. The Greek Anthology is an unusual text with roots in a...
This was a surprisingly speedy, easy and enjoyable read--for which Heaney, the translator, deserves a lot of credit. Especially given this is a verse translation. I've found that I have preferred prose translations of Homer and Dante because those trying to be true to alliteration, meter and rhyme o...
”Nothing can distinguish a man as a death sentence,” thought Mathilde. “It’s the only thing one can’t buy.”Julien Sorel was a young man with an audacious intellect. Such a gift can be a great resource that can be exploited for financial gain or it can be a burden that keeps a person in perpetual mis...
Beowulf conveys a detailed story armed with a full set of vicious teeth and bite. The historical background and the bloodlines of kings is interesting and provides the sense of heroism. All the feats related in this book are typical behavior for a king/warrior. So yes, the casual acts may be shockin...
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