Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Jethro Bithell wrote in Contemporary French Poetry (1912): That poem is worth more than all the commentaries on symbolism. “Le chanson grise” (whether it means “gray song,” as some of my friends say, or “drunken song,” as others say —…
I have commented on Argumentative Old Git‘s post on Shakespeare performances outside Britain. Preti Taneja’s call in The Guardian, “It’s time to break the national monopoly on Shakespeare,” is two centuries late. Maybe more. Russia was a latecomer to the fest but…
I only started to appreciate Pasternak’s work a short while ago, but there are a few poems I have always enjoyed, one of them — On the Steamboat (1916) ending like this: ‘Twas a chilly morning. Jaws got cramped,And the…