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Landmarks
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bookshelves: coming-soon-to-a-blog-near-you, brit-lit, 21st-century, poetry, romantical
Mar 02, 2015
bookshelves: coming-soon-to-a-blog-near-you, brit-lit, 21st-century, poetry, romantical
My review of this just went up in the current issue of The Southeast Review! Such a gorgeous book: http://southeastreview.org/volume-34-1/
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Originally landed on my list thanks to one of the most beautiful articles I've read in a long time: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...
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Originally landed on my list thanks to one of the most beautiful articles I've read in a long time: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...
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Reading Progress
March 2, 2015
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to-read
March 2, 2015
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September 13, 2015
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Started Reading
September 20, 2015
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"This book strongly shows Macfarlane's academic specialty and field, in the best possible way. It's precise, poetic, 18th century impulses are undeniable and make for memorable, exact prose, while he also allows free rein to all the Romanticism he has, in the best rhapsodizing the 19th century can offer. Great example of how academic reading can inform prose without crushing it- indeed, it gives it its power."
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September 23, 2015
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romantical
September 23, 2015
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poetry
September 23, 2015
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21st-century
September 23, 2015
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brit-lit
September 23, 2015
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coming-soon-to-a-blog-near-you
September 23, 2015
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It is such a great article, isn't it? I can't remember reading something so beautiful in a daily newspaper outlet in awhile.And thanks for sharing that quote. That's lovely.
Thanks! I'll give it to my students.
Great! What do you teach?
Oh, I want this book. *hails Tardis*
Vocabulary and English Lit, highschool level. This article really is beautiful - once more, thanks for sharing!
Oh that would be a great article for them! How inspiring! Would be great for an evolution or language talk if you do any Shakespeare too! You're welcome!And me too, Rebecca! Me too.
Thanks for sharing! Just wonderful!
It really is! It's on my list to read this month, looking forward to all the beauty on display in that article.
This is a gem! Thanks for finding it.
His books are pretty much all great! I recommend!
That sounds marvelous! Your article recommendation has resulted in this one landing on my TR shelf as well. I look forward to reading your review!
This author's real, genuine passion for his subject really comes through, doesn't it? I recommend pretty much his entire oeuvre. The Wild Places is my favorite so far, but we'll see if this one surpasses it.
It really is, isn't it? And the inside is even better, so far. Exactly what I expected, but in this case that's a good thing.
Kelly can you tell me how to find your review of Landmarks once I get to the web page? Thanks, Jim
What a fantastic book.
Thank you so much for pointing me towards it - it is full of word treasure.
And he mentions one of my favourite books, The Peregrine:
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there,” observed JA Baker in The Peregrine (1967), a book that brilliantly shows how such seeing might occur in language, written as it is in prose that has “the quivering intensity of an arrow thudding into a tree”. The terrain about which Baker wrote with such committing force was the coastal Essex of saltings, spinneys, sea walls and mudflats. Compelled by the high gold horizons of this old countryside, even as it was undergoing the assault of big-field farming in the 1950s and 1960s, Baker developed a new style with which to evoke its odd magnificence. His sentences are full of neologisms: the adjectives he torqued into verbs (“The north wind brittled icily in the pleached lattice of the hedgerows”), and the verbs he incites to misbehaviour (“Four short-eared owls soothed out of the gorse”).