[formerly @commonplacecaz] historian/uni faculty currently in residence in New Jersey, with a Husband, baby Twins, and a Cat; writer, musician and chocoholic rampant
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life as a tenure-track academic due to overproduction of doctoral graduates compounded by institutional overreliance on precarious academic employment
was in london a week ago and i saw a globe theatre production company of macbeth doing their vocal warmups and they were standing on stage and rhythmically shouting FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! at the top of their lungs in perfect unison for thirty seconds. so thats whats going on in the globe theatre these days. just thought yall should know
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues With An Introduction By John Hayward Decorations Drawn By John Austen And Illustrations Engraved In Wood By Agnes Miller Parker
GORGEOUSLY ILLUSTRATED CORONATION EDITION IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language as well as the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights as a means to examine different virtues, and though the text is primarily an allegorical work, it can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen Elizabeth I. In Spenser’s “Letter of the Authors,” he states that the entire epic poem is “cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devices,” and the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to “fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline.”
Spenser presented the first three books of The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I in 1589, probably sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh. The poem was a clear effort to gain court favour, and as a reward Elizabeth granted Spenser a pension for life amounting to £50 a year, though there is no further evidence that Elizabeth I ever read any of the poem. This royal patronage elevated the poem to a level of success that made it Spenser’s defining work.
Publisher: The Heritage Press, New York Copyright: In The Year of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1953)
rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between “damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)” and “damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)”
“He said silver and gold can’t buy you a home When this life has ended and your time has gone But you can live in a world where you never grow old And things can’t be bought there with silver and gold. “
A little style experiment featuring The Men Who Invented Love and my favorite song by Dolly Parton ❤️
I like to imagine that at least once during the clone wars someone sent a report to General Kenobi and a very tired Master Kenobi just graded it and sent it back.
