@tombdelay@cheddahz Charlotte should have gotten more but I think it’s a smart move: path to contention looked bleak out east — Heat got better; Hawks put up a good show against the Knicks and probably got better; Pacers get Hali back; and Knicks, Celtics, Pistons, and Cavs aren’t going anywhere.
@amjuster@JeremyTate41 The list is also missing Cicero; during the 16th century, his De Officiis was the second most-printed book. Newly-discovered works of his spurred the Renaissance.
Doubt 45-50 have influenced anyone of historical importance. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was popular in its day, too.
Today at NVR, Marie Burdett reviews Liv Ross's (@je_suis_liv) fairy-tale-in-verse The Blackbird Ballad (@SolumPress)!
"[Ross] takes inspiration from traditional folklore to weave a new tale about two best friends’ journey through Faerieland."
New on the podcast! @amjuster on his new translation of Petrarch's Canzionere. Clips:
What makes Petrarchan sonnets difficult to translate?
Do Petrarch’s poems to Laura qualify as “love poetry”?
The first poem in the book, written during a time of plague
On "lost soul" Catherine Breese Davis, a skilled but forgotten American formal poet with a life that could make a movie:
https://t.co/lgjS3dnXXK
Check out the @PoetryFound site about her.
Never not amazed by how in love Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were…..he told her he loved her in his very first letter and then rescued her from her overbearing father