Monday, July 10, 2017
A Scene from Pompeii
A Scene from Pompeii, or The Siesta (1868),
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, inv. P03996
A Scene from Pompeii, or The Siesta (1868),
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, inv. P03996
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.
