Hello everyone - I'm fairly new to this list, & have not posted before -
just been trying to digest the digests! I reckon pitching in might help, so
here goes...
I think Randolph Healy's proposal is an excellent one - why not exchange
books as well as ideas?
On the subject of good anthologies &c, I'd like to put a word in for Jerome
Rothenberg & Pierre Joris' 2-vol Poem For
the Millennium from University of California Press (ISBNs 0520072278 &
0520208641 for 1 & 2 respectively) as being good on putting things in a
global context - vol 2 has the more contemporary stuff. Monumental &
correspondingly pricey, but worth it - they certainly took a few scales of
my eyes.
I regard to Cromwell & co., Christopher Hill's books, particularly "The
World Turned Upside Down", are very stimulating reading. He has a very good
biography of Milton in the context of the English Revolution too, which
Faber of all people published in the UK. Cromwell may have been a rum cove,
esp. in regard to Ireland, but some of the things his ride on the crest of
the wave of events made possible set some pretty vitalising precedents.
regards to all
Dave Lovely (of mixed, but in the first several previous generations, partly
Anglo-Irish antecedents)
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