Welcome to the Internet
I read in the The Writer’s Handbook 2008 the article The Globalisation of Poetry by Chris Hamilton-Emery about the world of poetry but found it confusing as a lot of articles can be these…
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Charles Lamb – Old Familiar Faces
I am slowly going through a book published in Sneek (of all places) in 1887 called: “A Casket of Jewels – selected from poets of the nineteenth century” by E. J. Irving. It contains…
C.G. Rossetti – Dreamland
I read a handful of poems yesterday and liked two by C. G. Rossetti (1830-94). Easy to spot that she had something to do with the pre-raphaelite movement. In the poem Dreamland the same…
Thought about a Style
I read a little in the autobiography “Tove Ditlevsen Om Sig Selv” last night and noticed that the style of that book was somewhat unusual in my eyes. The Danish writer had written it…
Sources of inspiration for J.M.A. Biesheuvel.
After rereading some of the stories I eagerly read in my youth by the Dutch writer J.M.A. Biesheuvel I noticed that he actually gives clear hints about his ways of collecting material for his…
Writing and the Internet – a Growing Discussion.
TechCrunch is an influential blog that has clear opinions about the way the music industry is developing with regard to copyright and file sharing. Basically, the point of view is that the current development…