Saturday Review of Books: February 6, 2010
“Why have we none (that is, no grace) for books, those spiritual repasts–a grace before Milton–a grace before Shakespeare–a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the Faerie Queene?”~Charles Lamb If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it [...]
Many Happy Returns: Poetry Friday with Marlowe and Raleigh
Tomorrow, February 6th, is the birthday of poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe. COME live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, [...]

