Catherine Eisner
Friday, 30 December 2016
Finishing School for Versifiers (part 3) In the bleak midwinter.
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Listening once more – as is traditional with us – to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast on Christmas Eve from King’s Colleg...
Saturday, 17 December 2016
The Ballad of the Needlemen
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A Street Song of the Chartists, from June 1887, the month of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Alton Locke , Tailor & Poet (185...
Monday, 5 December 2016
Elegant variation . . . a too ornamented pronominal substitute?
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Ugh. Oh dear. The repetition of ‘Beverage’ . . . a wretched word that, in my view, has currency only in Her Majesty’s Department of Customs ...
Sunday, 13 November 2016
Repel Boarders! Two Unintermittently Stupid Sophomores Outstay Their Welcome . . . Ackerly and Ackley Conform to Type for Giacommetiesque J D Salinger and Jean Webster
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A sophomoric heroine and a sophomoric hero are just settling down to immersion in an edifying book, when the seclusion of their dorms is bre...
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