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Classics Literature Poetry

Greville’s Austere Voice

https://whathappenedtodaytheenglishnook.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/birth-of-sir-fulke-greville-1554-1628-the-poet-of-courtly-depth-and-metaphysical-reflection/#like-3142

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French Poetry

The Sparkle of your eyes

https://lgyslaine.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/leclat-de-tes-yeux-the-sparkle-of-your-eyes/

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Classics French Literature Poetry

The Bard in Mallarmé

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Literature Poetry politics

The Lost Voice of the Great War

https://whathappenedtodaytheenglishnook.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/death-of-edward-tennant-1897-1916-the-lost-voice-of-the-great-war/#like-3061

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Poetry

Sweet with Fire

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Classics Literature Poetry

Remembering Samuel Johnson

https://wordpress.com/reader/blogs/237940211/posts/3029

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Art and Photographic History French German Matters Poetry Psychoanalysis

Happy Birthday Hans Arp

https://whathappenedtodaytheenglishnook.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/birth-of-jean-hans-arp-giving-shape-to-the-language-of-dada-and-surrealism/#like-3014

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French Literature Poetry

À tous les sables du ciel

parce qu’on a toujours des herbes dans le sang je plaide pour la verdure je plaide pour la quiétude dans les forges du moment et pour les soleils marbrés qui cognent partout sur les dalles du temps qui reviennent jouer dedans avec tous les vents à la vie voulue à l’été éternel et je vénère […]

À tous les sables du ciel
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Book Reviews Film Literature Poetry

From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey

This week Paul Dry Books made me a very happy man.  My translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood, which will officially appear in April of next year, now has a cover, blurbs from four of my idols in disparate fields, and a foothold on Amazon.  The people I approached to endorse, […]

From Mandelstam to Mr. Peanut: Another Hollywood Émigré Journey
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Art and Photographic History Literature Poetry

Blake’s Mythology