John Hollander - Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (Yale Nota Bene) I love poetry but I have never found it easy to get excited about spondees, trochees and anapests. It would probably be of great benefit to me if I could, however there is something about books that discuss metre and prosody that... Continue Reading →
Two glimpses of Icarus
This painting is Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. You will probably need to click on the picture to enlarge it in order to see Icarus clearly. If you were visiting the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels in a bit of a hurry and didn't know the painting's title, you might even... Continue Reading →