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- "To understand many words it is only necessary to pronounce them aloud; and the meaning, which is obscured by the spelling, will be evident from the found. W is often used for u and for v : h is uselessly introduced, as yhe for ye, &c ." #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- "The chief obstacle in perusing this work arises from the orthography, which is ſo irregular that no glossary can pretend to explain every disguised word." --- John Barbour's THE BRUCE, p. 181, ed. Pinkerton (1790) #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- "Ennius we should worship as we do groves whose age has made them sacred, and whose huge and ancient trees have come to have more sanctity about them than beauty." #Scots #literature #history #epic #Bruce
- "Perhaps the editor may be accused of nationality, when he says that, taking the total merits of this work together, he prefers it to the early exertions of even the Italian muse, to the melancholy sublimity of Dante, and the amorous quaintness of Petrarca" #Scots #literature #history #epic
- " ... the oldest monument of the Scotish [sic] language. A monument which may well bear company with the best early poetry which any modern country can boast." p. x --- Preface, John Barbour's THE BRUCE #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- John Barbour's THE BRUCE: "the poem now presented to the reader for the first time, in it's genuine ancient dress, has already gone thro' about twenty editions in Scotland since the year 1616" #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- Book haul for three of my students. They asked for these particular titles and I fulfilled their wishes. The two at the bottom surprised me but she wants to build her resource collection in anticipation of college next year. #classiclit #reading #critical-thinking #literature
- "Handling rare books with gloves should be illegal." www.blackdograrebooks.com/post/how-to-... #library #archives #HigherEd #research #literature #academicSky #antiquarian
- Ursula K. Le Guin died #OTD in 2018. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 (1970). In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #scifi #literature #booksky
- “Rows of books around me stand, Fence me round on either hand; Through that forest of dead words I would hunt the living birds” Louis MacNeice (1936) #photography #books #shelves #bookshop #PotD #poetry #MacNeice #BarterBooks #Alnwick #literature
- The Brothers Grimm 1865 German book cover: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3482... #bookologythursday #art #bookcover #vintage #illustration #fairytales #literature #bookchatweekly #homedesign #gifts
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