Read All The Things: Day 74
Aug. 13th, 2012 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oulfisOk, today is actually Day 76, but my image is from Day 74 and I wanna write this to try to get into a better habit of doing it every week like I theoretically intended to. So, without further ado, The Spreadsheet:
Yeah, I rearranged it again! I think this is gonna be a common theme; when I wanna be working on All The Things, but don't feel like reading anything, I'm just gonna fidget with the spreadsheet. The blog will make for a nice time capsule.
Anyway, I ended up liking the 15th century more than I expected after all, when I got to John Skelton! Otis and Needleman describe him thus: "Wrote doggerel almost with genius. ... 'Skeltonical' verse is a staccato, voluble, now scrambling, now shuffling, often slipshod, octosyllabic couplet." Lots of fun!
I also enjoyed James I's Testament of Cresseid, perhaps more sincerely; it made me want to write my own poem about poor Cressida. It also made me want to go read Chaucer's version (on the list, but one I skipped) as well as re-reading Shakespeares (presumably appearing later). I like that I've gotten far enough to see texts really interacting with each other.
Another Otis and Needleman gem: "Blind Harry (or Henry the Minstrel), fl. 1470-1492, Scottish poet. (Possibly never a minstrel and possibly never blind.)" No further biographical information is included.
Well, that's All The Things. I think I'm gonna go... read something.
Yeah, I rearranged it again! I think this is gonna be a common theme; when I wanna be working on All The Things, but don't feel like reading anything, I'm just gonna fidget with the spreadsheet. The blog will make for a nice time capsule.
Anyway, I ended up liking the 15th century more than I expected after all, when I got to John Skelton! Otis and Needleman describe him thus: "Wrote doggerel almost with genius. ... 'Skeltonical' verse is a staccato, voluble, now scrambling, now shuffling, often slipshod, octosyllabic couplet." Lots of fun!
I also enjoyed James I's Testament of Cresseid, perhaps more sincerely; it made me want to write my own poem about poor Cressida. It also made me want to go read Chaucer's version (on the list, but one I skipped) as well as re-reading Shakespeares (presumably appearing later). I like that I've gotten far enough to see texts really interacting with each other.
Another Otis and Needleman gem: "Blind Harry (or Henry the Minstrel), fl. 1470-1492, Scottish poet. (Possibly never a minstrel and possibly never blind.)" No further biographical information is included.
Well, that's All The Things. I think I'm gonna go... read something.
