Catherine Eisner
Thursday 17 May 2012
Mangled Frankenstein: the Perils of the e-Text.
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In four years’ time (2016) I shall be ready to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Frankenstein , when I intend to explode the myt...
Tuesday 15 May 2012
‘They All Ought to be Hung’: a Minor Spat.
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Talking of Roger Casement being ‘hanged on a comma’, I am reminded of my recent spat with an admired American translator from the French of...
Monday 30 April 2012
To Have and Have Not.
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I was SO pleased to have a text of mine published this year in the Winter issue of Ambit , particularly as I feared its subject was conten...
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Catechisms and Cliché : Fatuous Minds Think Alike or Finishing School for Versifiers (part 1)
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I’m ashamed to admit I’ve taken agin a number of writers simply because, unknown to me, like Amundsen at the South Pole, they’ve trumped me ...
Friday 23 March 2012
Two Tautologies : Right and Wrong?
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My long-held interest in Henry Harland, chameleon-like editor of the The Yellow Book (feigned Russian-born descent) led me to the British ...
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Thursday 8 March 2012
No Geraniums! Wrong Wreath for Dickens’s Grave
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What an opportunity lost! I note, with regret, that last month a wreath of insipid white roses and snowdrops was laid on Charles Dickens...
Sunday 4 March 2012
Consobrinal Twinship, Esau and De Wikkelkinderen
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Twinship is an ever-absorbing phenomenon for me for I can claim to be one of consobrinal (first-cousin) twins.* I was brought up as the ‘...
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