"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).
Pages
▼
Monday, February 24, 2014
Exception
Patrick Leigh-Fermor (1915-2011), "The Strange Case of the Swabian Poet," Words of Mercury (London: John Murray, 2004), pp. 202-206 (at 205):
After all, not every millionaire was an illiterate philistine.