Mood: Augustan
Books finished in February (so far): Boccaccio on Poetry, translated and edited by Charles G. Osgood
Books started: The Poetry of Meditation, by Louis L. Martz; St. Augustine’s Pigeon, by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
February 17, 2008
February 1, 2008
What I’m Reading, 2-1-2008
Mood: melismatic
Books finished in January: Paul Claudel, by Harold A. Waters; The Rattle Bag, edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.
Newly started: Boccaccio on Poetry: Being the Preface and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Books of Boccaccio’s Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, translated and edited by Charles G. Osgood; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1956; Literature; part of the Library of Liberal Arts series. Possibly the most heavily-footnoted book I’ve ever read.
