"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).
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Quiz
What English poet left university and enrolled in the 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons under the name of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache?
Rules: Guess before googling. Hint: Look at the initials. For fun: Invent a pseudonym for yourself on the same pattern.