In this post I will present the latest addition to my Latin library, which is a single-volume edition of the 1962 Diurnale Romanum breviary. The post can be read as an addendum to โLearn Latin using contemporary resourcesโ or as a sample review related to โLetโs talk about books and literatureโ article found elsewhere on …
“The Bridge” by Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas was a British poet, nature writer and literary critic. Born in London in 1878, he was educated at Oxford, and first started his writing career as a book reviewer and prose writer; he turned to poetry much later in life, greatly encouraged by one of his closest friends, the famous American poet Robert …
Further or farther
Please email me for further information. To reach the post office, walk farther down the street. Further, fartherโฆ Whatโs the difference? Is it just two different spellings of the same word? The answer is yesโand no. Please read on for some explanation. Both โfurtherโ and โfartherโ are irregular comparative forms of the same adjective (and …
“February Rain” by Charles T. Dazey
Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright born in Lima, Illinois, in 1855. He wrote a number of successful plays, also leaving a mark in the early film history as a writer of numerous silent films. He died in Quincy in 1938; sadly, his works quickly became forgotten. Charles T. Dazey I chose …
