#ivor brown

[thefugitivesaint]

Herbert Cole (1867-1930), ''Form - A Quarterly of the Arts'', Vol. 1, #2, 1917 Source

[sneakydragon]

This week David and Ian talk mongers, monkeys, mounting debt, keeping mom, archaic money, thighing a woodcock, taming a crab, ambivalent adulthood, funeral fun, and distant fathers.

Sneaky Dragon Episode 710

[firstnightdesign]

Shakespeare 400: Quote • JOHN GIELGUD • Hamlet 'Here is a Hamlet who seems to have pondered each line for its meaning as well as weighed it for its musical value, who points the wit, the agony, the ecstasy of Hamlet with a sensitive appreciation of the lad from Wittenberg who has been hurled into this bestial world of court and crime.

[roaringup]

wow:

Cowper wrote a poem in praise of halibut, or himself, concluding:

Thy lot thy brethren of the slimey fin Would envy, could they know that thou wast doomed To feed a bard and to be prais'd in verse.

Observed critic Ivor Brown over a century later: "The notion of fish pining to become the raw material of indifferent, or even of the best, poetry and to serve as the sustenance of human authorship is one which is beyond comment."

(from British Literary Anecdotes, Robert Hendrickson. man I love anecdote books.)

[brbnightmares]