"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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Monday, November 02, 2009
These Grim Two
Max Beerbohm on Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman:
How compare either of these grim two? Each has an equal knack, Hardy supplies the pill that's blue, Housman the draught that's black.