"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, April 16, 2012
Alas for the Lost Lore
J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936):
Alas for the lost lore, the annals and old poets that Virgil knew, and only used in the making of a new thing!