"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, October 12, 2023
Good Cheer
Beowulf 611-612 (tr. E. Talbot Donaldson):
There was laughter of warriors, voices rang pleasant,
words were cheerful.
Ðær wæs hæleþa hleahtor, hlyn swynsode,
word wæron wynsume.