Monthly Archives: October 2013

Curculio 6: Two Adjectives in Seneca’s Agamemnon

Posted on Thursday: October 31, 2013 by Michael Hendry

How’s that for a boring title? As a continuation of my experiment with publishing original scholarship on this site, I have just uploaded an eight-page PDF containing two conjectures on the text of Seneca’s Agamemnon, titled as above (link). (I … Continue reading →

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Curculio 5: Worst. Endearment. Ever.

Posted on Thursday: October 31, 2013 by Michael Hendry

Peter Davidson’s Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660 (Oxford, 1998) includes a rather dull love-poem (number 36) by “T.C.”, most likely Thomas Cary, “Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles I” (516). The untitled poetic dialogue … Continue reading →

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“Bacon and Eggs”

Posted on Tuesday: October 29, 2013 by Michael Hendry

Laudator Temporis Acti quotes an amusing poem from 1931 by A. P. Herbert on the British fondness for bacon and eggs. There is an equally-amusing country song by the Lovett Sisters saying much the same about Americans in 1954. Here … Continue reading →

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Walter Scott Anagrammatized

Posted on Thursday: October 10, 2013 by Michael Hendry

Laudator Temporis Acti has an interesting post on Sir Walter Scott’s library. If you haven’t already read it, go and do so before continuing. Done? OK, let’s continue. I was naturally curious about the anagram, wondering how Scott’s library motto, … Continue reading →

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Announcement: Juvenal Reformatted

Posted on Friday: October 4, 2013 by Michael Hendry

Some time between 1998 and 2000 – I really should have kept better records – I uploaded a complete on-line text of Juvenal’s Satires, with brief apparatus criticus and some original conjectures. Though it has not been updated since (I … Continue reading →

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