Sunday, January 24, 2010

Death rather than voluntary self-pollution: Joseph Hall on moral matters

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Joseph Hall, 1574-1656, is one of those figures who really might feature more tha...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Two Horatian Odes

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Two ‘Horatian Odes’ after Marvell, using his famous, but surprisingly little used metre. Both poems are elegiac, about General Sherman after...
Saturday, January 09, 2010

"We took particular Notice of one of those She-Astrologers": 17th century Venice

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I have posted before about a woman astrologer’s advert in mid 17 th century London (both th...
Friday, January 01, 2010

John Chapman’s New Year’s Gift: documenting the Westerham landslip, 1596.

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Google Earth image contributed by Malcolm Page, see comment from him below the post --> ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

(St) Philip Howard takes upon him a quarrel

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I came across this thrasonical document on EEBO, where it is attributed to St Philip H...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

A riotous Christmas at Canterbury, 1647

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The anonymous pamphlet titled The declaration of many thousands of the city of Canterbury, or ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

That animals can't look upwards: George Hakewill, 1608

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George Hakewill’s THE VANITIE OF THE EYE , First beganne for the Comfort of a Ge...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

The mad house poems of James Carkesse

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‘To a Lady, who was very kind to him in the place.’ Madam, when first your Beauty shin’d Into my Cel...