What Makes Poems Good?
July 8, 2021
A video caught my attention today: What makes poems good? Reading through the first of three volumes of English poetry, I thought I’d get the
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Cruel Love
July 7, 2021
A theme that pops up fairly regularly in reading poetry is ‘cruel love’. Come away, come away, deathAnd in sad cypres let me be laidFly
Diction Poetic Hate I Do
July 6, 2021
The current volume I’m reading in the Harvard Classics series is English Poetry 1. I believe they’ve tried as much as possible to go in
Personal Experience as the Average
July 5, 2021
I hope I’m a decent person. I try to be. I do my best to treat people with respect and I try…. even if I
My Favorite book of the Hebrew Bible
July 5, 2021
I just finished reading through the book of Daniel and I was reminded that it may be, at least in my opinion, one of the
More Chaucer follow up
July 2, 2021
Reading Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, I realized I could understand quite a bit. It helps that I’ve been in more contact with older forms of English
Chaucer’s past participles
July 1, 2021
So I am running across this construction in verbs while reading the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. It is to start certain verb forms with a
Dual Natures and the Release of Curiosity
June 30, 2021
Reading through volume 39 of the Harvard Series- Famous Prefaces, I’m in Victor Hugo’s preface to Cromwell, where he defines the Romanticist movement. He starts
Similitude in Dissimilitude
June 29, 2021
William Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, writes “a principle which must be well known to those who have made any of the Arts
One Sees Only What One Knows
June 28, 2021
I saw this quote in one of the pieces I’m reading: One sees only what one knows. Just ruminating on that a bit, and considering
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.