"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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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Credo
Giuseppe Verdi, quoted by Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (New York: Vintage Books, 1956; rpt. 1962), p. 46:
Let us return to old times, and that will be progress.