it’s a wrap
Summer school is over! I’m sure I would teach either class again– but perhaps not both at once. We wrapped up Intro to Poetry by spending the morning looking at MSS in Houghton Library. Robert Browning’s handwriting was small, neat and legible; so was Keats’, at least on what looked like a fair copy of “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.” It looked a lot like the version we know, except that “fair serene” came later: here the line was (if I remember correctly) “Yet never did I know what men could mean.”
Jordan praises the current scoring system for gymnastics, and I’m convinced. Ron Silliman praises something called Theory, and I am surprised to find that I largely agree! I praise Juan Felipe Herrera, in a piece that has generated some neat positive feedback and at least one blogger’s disbelief.
Jenny indexes her book. That’s not the way I did it…
Nathan, seeing me eat gooseberries last week, and then learning their name, told me “They go quack! quack!” He’s also started to say, at the start of a mealtime, “Thank you [or "Thank you, mommy"] for making dinner,” and when he’s done, “I’m all done” (pushing himself away from the table, or walking away and then) “It was really good though.” Could our little guy be more adorable?
August 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
we very much liked your article on juan felipe herrera from the ny times and included a short excerpt in our blog.
thanks!
August 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I want to hear how you did yours! I fear that the way we tackle this sort of project is deeply revealing of thinking preferences/habits… And in fact I was looking at your Jarrell one, because my copy of the Chicago Manual of Style was at the office & I wanted to look at a Columbia UP example!