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GLENN'S BOOK NOTES

These in-depth, thought-provoking, and often funny posts are the brainchild of The Book Barn's very own Glenn. He never fails to make a great recommendation, useful warning or entertaining suggestion!

Aug 12, 2009

41: MAXIMES, PENSEES, ESSAIS

#41:  MAXIMES, PENSÉES, ESSAIS.  If you have had your head in the cloudier regions of poetry, philosophy or metaphysic, nothing can bring...

 
Jul 8, 2009

40: A COUPLE OF STOPPARDS

#40: A COUPLE OF STOPPARDS. And speaking of scholar-poets…. In the first minutes of Tom Stoppard’s play "The Invention of Love,"...

 
Jun 10, 2009

39: OVID REDIVIVUS

#39:  OVID REDIVIVUS.  Scholars must hate it when poets nip in and grab the glory.  There they work, in learned obscurity, and then...

 
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