Pablo Picasso, 'Flute Player,' 1946, graphite pencil and watercolor on paper ALAMY
Pablo Picasso, 'Faun in a Purple Coat,' 1946, PICASSO MUSEUM, ANTIBES, FRANCE/ALAMY
Tablet: Goodbye, Leib Goldkorn
Goodbye, Leib Goldkorn
In an afterword to a new and perhaps final collection of Goldkorn stories, the author explains the origins of his alter ego, and bids him farewell
Robert Burns, Lincluden Abbey from Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.
Robert Burns, Lincluden Abbey
Robert Burns, Lincluden Abbey from Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.
“The mood of mind which comes over you here is that of unwritten poetry.
When one thinks of Burns wandering amid this congenial nature, where the young now wander and sing his songs, one is apt to forget that he bore with him a sad heart and a sinking frame.”
— William Howitt
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Burleigh House, where John Dryden composed some of his translation of Virgil.
John Dryden, Burleigh House
Those who have homes, when home they do repair,
To a last lodging call their wandering friends:
Their short uneasy sleeps are broke with care,
To look how near their own destruction tends.
Those who have none, sit round where once it was,
And with full eyes each wonted room require;
Haunting the yet warm ashes of the place,
As murder’d men walk where they did expire.
— John Dryden, from “Annus Mirabilis”
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Pictured: Stella’s Cottage, from Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets (Un-Gyve Press)
Stella’s Cottage
No bloom of youth can ever blind
The cracks and wrinkles of your mind:
All men of sense will pass your door,
And crowd to Stella’s at four-score.
— Jonathan Swift, from “Stella’s Birth-day”
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Liam Ó Muirthile, 1950 – 18 May 2018
Though we may never meet again, do not think that you have been forgotten. Remember me on your walks from time to time on Inisbofin or wherever you find yourself.
— from “Song” Liam Ó Muirthile (1950 – 18 May 2018), translated from the Irish by Greg Delanty in Selected Delanty.
Read MoreSelected Delanty deckle-edged
".... The early printers had no cutting machines to
trim off these edges, in order to facilitate good
registration, but they did have such an endless
amount of care and patience, that, whenever we
pick up one of their books, we see the beautiful
feature...."
This edition of Selected Delanty (Un-Gyve Press) is a 234 page cloth-covered sewn deckle edged hardbound book. ISBN: 978-0-9993632-0-1.
Read MoreThe Truth of Two
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke touches upon a truth of translations, Of Trifling Propoſitions. (Book IV.):
Read MoreThe Sons of the Gael
We, a bunch of greencard Irish,
vamp it under the cathedral arches
of Brooklyn Bridge that’s strung like a harp.
‘We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No’ Selected Delanty
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