Archive - ubique naufragium est

Two sonnets mentioning Caesar

A very quick look at miscellaneous sonnets by Thomas Wyatt & George Gascoigne

Jun 5 •

May 2025

Norway, sea-poems, Beckett's Rimbaud

My recent trip to Bergen, Norway happened to coincide with the sunniest two days that the city will likely experience all year.

May 28 •

December 2024

Some favourite excerpts from Hugh Trevor-Roper's Wartime Journals

Written illicitly while HTR was a spy during WWII. The journals show him at his most discriminating, humorous, vicious, and brilliant.

Dec 29, 2024 •

Winter/ the year's turning

Winter (beginning 21st December) is better than autumn.

Dec 28, 2024 •

November 2024

Children aren't reading for pleasure

Brief thoughts on tech and family

Nov 20, 2024 •

May 2024

Imitating Casimire

On the Barberini Bees

May 10, 2024 •

April 2024

Helen Vendler has died.

Apr 24, 2024 •

November 2023

Autumn/ falling

Autumn has its own poetic tradition.

Nov 10, 2023 •

September 2023

Re-publishing some thoughts on poetics

Sep 21, 2023 •

August 2023

John Sparrow, Bibliographer

In John Lowe’s biography of John Sparrow, The Warden (1999), there are several anecdotes about Sparrow’s bibliophilia, literary correspondences, and…

Aug 7, 2023 •

May 2021

Excerpts from Sherwood Anderson, James Anthony Froude, Balthasar

Sherwood Anderson is perhaps the greatest forgotten American author.

May 30, 2021 •

March 2021

Let me be brief.

Mar 31, 2021 •

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