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Dear Tourists to Greece: It is very hot. It is hotter than you think it is. Do not take hikes in the middle of the day. Do not hike by yourself. Wear a hat. Bring water. (4 people have died and one is missing so far and it is only June.)

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If you think poetry is a luxury, ask people in a war zone:

Omar from Gaza 𓂆

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We recite poetry, which is our heritage and history, amid the sounds of war machines and this rubble that we spread with flowers so we can live anew.

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Women think about the Iliad about once a day.

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4 years

This is how to build a wall:

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More than 20 African countries have joined together to plant a giant wall of trees that will run across the continent to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert. The Great Green Wall of Africa will stretch for 7,000 kilometres, from coast to coast right across the continent.

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Happy Blake Despair day, between two & seven, for those who celebrate:

The Romanticism blog

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#OTD 1807 William Blake writes "Tuesday Jany 20, 1807, between Two & seven in the Evening, Despair"

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(I will basically never not repost this excellent poem):

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#AndreaCohen

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1 year

Still processing this news--thrilled to have been elected Oxford Professor of Poetry. And what an honor to have been running (or standing?) alongside such a terrific short list of poets I admire-- @donpatersonpoet , @christianbok , and Mark Ford. Thanks to all who participated!

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I'm just bowled over with this news--much to say, and many people to thank. And especially an honor given the excellence of the field. For now--thank you!

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6 months

It occurs to me that the problem with writing and AI is not that people will train AI to write better, but that AI will train people to write worse.

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4 years

What???

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4 years

In Budapest there's a fountain that looks like a book: every few seconds a sheet of water blasts forth from the book's spine, arcing from one side to the other, creating the illusion that an invisible force is turning the pages of this marble tome [gif: ]

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10 months

Occurs to me that optimism is often simply a product of getting sufficient sleep.

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6 months

Poets attending science lectures to enlarge their "stock of metaphors"--not wrong.

The Romanticism blog

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#OTD 1802 Humphrey Davy begins a second series of Royal Society chemistry lectures. Coleridge later writes "I attended Davy's lectures to enlarge my stock of metaphors. Every Subject in Davy's mind has the principle of Vitality. Living thoughts spring up like turf under his feet"

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9 months

There should be an app that will read e-mails you are afraid to open and tell you whether you are just working yourself up for no reason or you should indeed gird your loins.

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5 years

Poets (including myself): the world is ending. Poets (also me): I have a book out.

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5 years

Poems come in batches like pancakes. First one is always wonky, last one is burned.

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3 years

Sad to report that, after 35 days in ICU for Covid, our Greek brother-in-law, Kosta, has died. He welcomed me--the foreigner--into the family, and when my father died suddenly in 2000, he got up at some ungodly hour and took me to the airport in his taxi. He will be missed.

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7 months

If poets and poetry and dancing are not important, then why are poets detained, imprisoned, and assassinated, why is dancing banned? These are among the most human of activities, and the most subversive.

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4 years

@JRehling Also it turns out there are visa requirements/residency requirements everywhere. Why don't Americans understand this? Unless they plan on being "illegals"?

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2 months

Thinking of all those poetry editors who are about to get approximately a zillion poem submissions about the Northern Lights.

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6 months

What???!:

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Thomas Hardy died OTD 1928. After his death, his ashes were to be buried at Westminster Abbey & his heart in his Dorset village. However the heart was left for a few minutes in the kitchen & the cat ate it. The heart (inside dead cat) is buried in St. Michael's, Stinsford.

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8 months

All Souls is having none of your Harry Potter in Oxford nonsense:

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4 years

@zakbos @Phil_Lewis_ Fell harder than was pushed.

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9 months

"What were the Greek ships on fire compared to this loss? In his tent, Achilles grieved with his whole being and the gods saw he was a man already dead, a victim of the part that loved, the part that was mortal." #LouiseGluck

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2 years

Saw "poetry" was trending, and I worried it was dead.

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3 years

I know I lose followers every time I post/retweet about the dire situation this planet/climate is in. I do it because the poems I write (and the poems I love) are actually all about this particular planet with its special climate, so there is that. Thank you for sticking with me.

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3 years

does anyone else have this melancholy, wistful, "please could something good happen?" feeling? Just me?

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Well this is a first--got an e-mail from someone looking for my poem on Leda and the Swan. To my memory, I haven't got one. Turned out this is according to AI! AI just invented the fact of the poem.

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1 year

I think it is fair to announce this now, that I'm standing for the Oxford Professor of Poetry election, along with some excellent company ( @christianbok , Mark Ford, & Don Paterson). If you're in "Convocation," you can register to vote here until May 12th:

Microsoft Forms

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@chrislhayes @etamny (Does the pro-life lobby consider the children this woman will now not have?)

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4 years

Classics increasingly self-aware, I think, of issues of sexism, racism, etc. within the discipline. But sometimes it seems quite blind to another bias: a condescending/colonial attitude to modern Greece, Greek, and Greeks (including archaeologists and scholars), themselves.

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1 year

(Hoping for best for rescue, that lives are saved in time with submarine, esp of crew. Yet am also struck by juxtaposition of the resources being expended to look for deep sea tourists vs. on hundreds, including children, who drowned in Mediterranean shipwreck just weeks ago.)

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3 years

Greek brother-in-law, who drives a taxi and so exposed to the public at large, has come down with Covid, is in hospital ICU and going to be intubated. Appreciate good thoughts! We're not concerned with our exposure (nothing in person together for months), but are very worried.

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2 years

That urge to send a new poem directly out into the sunlit world when you know, you know, you know it needs to ferment a little first in a dark cellar.

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8 months

@Historiographos My kids also refer to the 90s as the "late 1900s"

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10 months

#ElizabethBishop (photo by @abriana_jette )

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3 months

Been doing so much Byron stuff, forgot to post this selfie with me & Byron!

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10 months

I'm doing this tomorrow (October 3rd):

A.E. Stallings to deliver Fagles Lecture

We are delighted to welcome poet, translator, and classicist A.E. Stallings as Princeton’s 2023–2024 Robert Fagles Lecturer for Classics in the Contemporary Arts. Known for her rhyming translations...

classics.princeton.edu

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8 months

Doing this TOMORROW (yikes!):

Faculty of English

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This Monday, 20 November, A.E.Stallings @ae_stallings will hold her inaugural lecture as Professor of Poetry @Exam_Schools , Oxford. She will talk on The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation'. All welcome! #ClassicsTwitter #ProfessorofPoetry #poetrycommunity

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7 months

A poem for Epiphany, "The Wise Men," with thanks to @readliberties for publishing:

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1 year

This seems important:

The New York Times

@nytimes

1 year

Scientists have made a white paint that can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing inside temperatures and cutting air-conditioning needs by as much as 40%.

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5 years

I like the fact that kids were playing with toy cars before there were cars.

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5 years

Revising poetry should be called reversing.

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11 months

Copyediting brings me out at my most obnoxious. Just explained that you can't "reach a crescendo" because a "crescendo" is a growing/getting louder, and you can only reach a "fortissimo." Arrggh. Loathe self. (Yet . . . true?)

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10 months

Over the moon about this;

“Hares”

“I am seen, I bet, / more often than I see.”

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7 months

Happy "The Darkling Thrush" day today for those who celebrate:

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy | Poetry Foundation

I leant upon a coppice gate

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1 year

I think this is my favorite Dickinson poem:

I started Early – Took my Dog – (656) by Emily… | Poetry Foundation

I started Early – Took my Dog –

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5 months

Would make a good book title and cover:

The Public Domain Review

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Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — Completed in his early twenties, the work seems to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams...

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5 years

Poets like twitter because it is basically like publishing poetry, but without the rejection. Universe, here is a line! (I say this as a poet flinging lines out to the universe.) We are spiders.

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1 year

(Why are people surprised about the flatbread/ur pizza with toppings depicted at Pompeii when there is literally an origin myth about flatbread with toppings in Aeneid 7?)

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6 years

People really love poets when they are safely dead.

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1 year

My 13-year old daughter's watercolor of "trees in fog" (photo @JTPsaropoulos ):

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7 months

You might not think poetry is important, but tyrants do:

Ben Wilkinson

@BenWilko85

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Never forget: language is power and knowledge. Poetry has always been a means of questioning how the powerful use rhetoric to try to control our reality. A Moscow court has handed long jail terms to two men for reciting poetry addressing the Ukraine war.

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3 years

We would do better to remember, I think, that economics and ecology are rooted in the same word (oikos, home).

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3 years

Parthenon glimpsed through a scrim of snow this morning on our snow walk (photo by @JTPsaropoulos ):

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3 years

Just signed a contract for my Georgics translation... feeling a little fizzy-elated, a little freaked out. (Now I have to do it!)

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5 years

Thrilled with this news:

Farrar,Straus&Giroux

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More great news! LIKE by @ae_stallings is a finalist for the #PulitzerPrize in Poetry, which the judges cite as "a collection of inventive formal poetry that challenges, gives shape to, and delights in how the art form mimics and distorts the universalities of life."

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5 years

Puddles!:

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10 months

Oh my gosh. Am in a hotel in Corfu and am witnessing Americans in a crisis about their room and anxious about the impropriety of asking a fellow traveller to change rooms with them, although fellow traveller very willing to change, and it is like watching A Room with a View.

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4 years

Whenever we're at the National Archaeological Museum, I always drop by for a visit with "The Little Refugee," in his travelling cloak and clutching his puppy, brought to Greece from Asia Minor by Greek refugees in 1922. (Photo: @JTPsaropoulos ):

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2 years

Why do billionaires have such shrunken imaginations? All rockets to the moon and no "maybe I'll figure out a way to reseed coral reefs in cooler waters to save them for future generations" or "I'll get controlling shares in a fossil fuel company and make it go in for rewilding."

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11 months

So if I edited a poetry journal, I would be putting out a call for poems written on aircraft carriers.

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3 years

Not only is Die Hard a Christmas movie, it is essentially a variation of the Odyssey.

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6 years

"The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time." #PhilipLarkin

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Was able, only just, to make a visit to a dear older poet friend in hospice on his penultimate day. All the last conversations were about poetry and poets. What a precious friendship.

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1 year

When the golden thistle blooms and loud cicada sings... according to Hesiod, it is officially summertime:

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7 months

(Hey people all in turmoil about not getting into the Ivies... guess what? State schools are a bargain, amazing institutions, have great professors who actually teach, smart and ambitious students without necessarily fancy "connections" but a lot of intelligence and gumption.)

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@ambernoelle "I would rather stand shield to shield in battle three times than give birth even once," Medea (Euripides version), 431 BCE.

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New Ship of Theseus just dropped:

depths of wikipedia!

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perpetual tootsie

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1 year

In a very on-brand poet move, ate a plum out of the ice box for breakfast.

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5 years

If Odysseus had had a 20-year old cat instead of a dog, it would have greeted his return by peeing in his suitcase.

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1 year

My goodness, I had completely forgotten that during lockdown I had started a "Hippiad"--a version of the Iliad entirely from the equine point of view. I abandoned it as loony, but now I am looking at it, and it isn't ... terrible?

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6 years

America would lose its mind if a bunch of puppies were taken from their mothers and put in comfortless cages in an abandoned Walmart.

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3 years

At dinner with a Greek couple last night, and the man was describing an amazing food he had eaten in Texas... like a hot dog, but indescribably better. Words could not express. It was wrapped in some kind of cake-like pastry. "Er, a corn dog?" I ventured? "Yes! Corn dog!"

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Athens propaganda so good somehow that I have editors query me when I assert that Sparta won the Peloponnesian War(s).

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5 years

Does prose have all the other months?

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6 years

A friendly reminder on the etymology of "vote" from Latin voveō: I vow, I promise, I wish, I dedicate.

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1 year

One of the problems with poetry is that I find I have to write bad poems to get to the good poems. And I hate writing bad poems! Arrrgh.

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3 years

Seven stages of book reviewing 1. read book 2. read book 3. read book 4. mull 5. panic and write 3,000 unrelated words 6. write 2,000 related words 7. cut back to 1,200 and file

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6 months

Keep wishing plough still rhymed with enough (as I presume it did?) Would be so convenient. Anyhough.

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That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who’d never heard Of any world where promises were kept, Or one could weep because another wept. #Auden , "The Shield of Achilles"

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4 years

That point in their formal schooling when children are told to use fancy verbs in dialogue instead of "said" to pep up their writing. Do I, as a writer, er, say something? This drives me nuts. She opined.

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2 years

Hey! I'm world famous in Larissa now!:

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Spent a stirring afternoon in the presence of boxes of Byron and Byron adjacent belongings and memorabilia at the @GennadiusL ... could even in some cases carefully touch things. Here is an amazing eye drawn by his daughter Ada, when around 12?:

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It's spring. The cats are in bloom!:

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@MediumSizeMeech @BooksPajamas Still can't get over the weird image of the Pope holding a tiny Parthenon.

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Cover reveal for Selected Poems with @fsgbooks , "This Afterlife," painting by @coope_ashley :

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Oh my gosh, just misread a Disney+ advertisement (glasses not on?) as for a show called "Only Muppets In the Building"... and now I would like to watch that.

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4 years

Instead of "I hope this finds you well in these interesting/difficult times" I'm thinking of beginning (or concluding?) all e-mails with "O tempora, o mores!"

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Do I buy the relatively expensive second-hand designer shoes exactly in my size that are fabulous from the consignment store or not?

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1 year

My four-part essay on poets ( #Keats , #Byron , #Cavafy , Merrill etc.) and the framing of the debate over the Marbles taken from the #Parthenon is available to read on-line for free thanks to the Hudson Review and its 75th anniversary issue. Part one is here:

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Opened an anxiety-inducing e-mail immediately instead of letting it fester for a week. Please clap.

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Hesiod: Spring sailing can commence when the topmost leaf of the fig tree is the size of a crow's foot. Me: check!

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(Quietly panicking, ha!):

Faculty of English

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ONE WEEK TO GO! @ae_stallings will hold her inaugural Professor of Poetry lecture on 20 November at Examination Schools, Oxford on the topic of 'The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation' #ProfessorofPoetry #POP #bats #poetrylovers

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Ah! The invention of... the sail!:

CNN

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Giant kites could pull cargo ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions

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I sometimes think to myself, sternly (like Alice), you reply "wow" a lot to social media--isn't that banal? And then I think, but "wow" first appeared in English (Okay, Middle Scots) in the Gavin Douglas' translation of the Aeneid in 1513!, and then I'm like, it's all good.

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(I occurs to me that one way to save Stone Henge from the threat of this new tunnel, would be for the Greeks to take it for safekeeping, for its own good, to protect it from indifference of the indigenous population...) (Sorry! I cannot help it!)

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OK I am officially weary with all the Stoic stuff. Where are my Epicurean peeps? Where are the Epicurean self-help books etc.? I mean, aside from Lucretius?

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6 months

Bring back fifteen-minute sonnet writing competitions!

The Romanticism blog

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#OTD 1818 Shelley writes ‘To The Nile’ in a fifteen-minute sonnet writing competition with Leigh Hunt and Keats

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I would like to redo my bathroom with this floor, please:

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Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room, Central Baths, Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

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Exciting to visit my own book in the Bodleian today! (The Penguin, which evidently has seen some use.)

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