"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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Friday, June 05, 2026
Contemporaries
C.S. Lewis, letter to Herbert Palmer (November 8, 1945):
The truth is I'm v. unfair to contemporaries. When it comes to the point I always
ask myself why I shd. go to a bookseller and get something wh. I may like when
my shelves are full of what I certainly do like already.