Thing Finder

Here is an interesting article by Ian Hamilton in the March 16, 2000 Guardian , Against Oblivion . He is writing about poets' reputatio...

The Bibliomaniac's Prayer by Eugene Field Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way That I may truths eternal seek; I need protecting care to...

Robert Louis Stevenson in his Collected Essays has one, Random Memories: rosa quo locorum , describing his earliest recollections of reading...

I just finished Alex Kershaw's The Longest Winter . This is the story of a single platoon, the eighteen members of which, through the d...

I am reading Thomas J. Cutler's The Battle of Leyte Gulf , currently out of print. This late WWII naval battle doesn't receive a lo...

A.D. Hope was a wonderful, if occassionally racy, Australian poet. You can find his works in any anthology of Australian Poetry. As I look ...

The National Library of Scotland has a fascinating collection of digitized broadsheets from years gone by. Looking through some of these br...

As so often happens, when looking for one thing I came across another of interest. In a similar vein to the poem I posted a while ago, Barb...

J.J. Tanner, 1850 I just finished reading Stephen Crane's short story The Open Boat . In the story he alludes to a ballad whose first l...

"Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience." p. 24 Mollie & Other War Pieces by A.J. Liebling