"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, November 28, 2019
The Ancients
Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 52:
The ancients
lifted one out of time, out of a mean, fussy, moral present, up to the
clouds and the gods, over seas and continents, or in their stories defied
every law of mankind.