02-07-2019, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2019, 07:03 PM by RiverNotch.)
sorry if i have not seemed as active as i ought to be of late. aside from not having a computer making it quite difficult to post a lot of the long poems i want to present in potd, a recent project of mine has snowballed into me trying to gather (and, of course, read) as many copies of early modern to early, modern english literature as i can, from spenser's the faerie queene down to gibbon's decline and fall. and because i am a slow, disorganized reader, i find myself stuck (in a good way) on shakespeare, partciularly the three plays that got great film adaptations by kenneth branagh. currently i'm reading along his adaptation of hamlet, pausing occasionally to read the extended comments of dr. johnson and co. i'll elaborate later, but i gather this is enough of a seed for further discussion, if not an acceptable excuse.
quick ps: if ever i am able to do it on phone, and if enough people request, i can post links to the facsimile pdf's i've collected and slightly reformatted, in particular dr. johnson's dictionary and first edition shakespeare. they're readily available elsewhere in the internet, but the pdf's up for download of these editions specifically are not only hard to find (though not in the legal sense -- the shakespeare was acquired through a deep dive through wikimedia commons), but also not appropriately bookmarked.
quick ps: if ever i am able to do it on phone, and if enough people request, i can post links to the facsimile pdf's i've collected and slightly reformatted, in particular dr. johnson's dictionary and first edition shakespeare. they're readily available elsewhere in the internet, but the pdf's up for download of these editions specifically are not only hard to find (though not in the legal sense -- the shakespeare was acquired through a deep dive through wikimedia commons), but also not appropriately bookmarked.
