I have not done much in this relatively new formant which I like to think of as the equivalent of the short poems Lawrence wrote when he was too ill and tired to do anything else ('Pansies' he called them because that English word is derived from Pensées). Not that standard he set would be easy to reach! Some of these blogs have been posted on the website of Wordsworth Classics and others were written with members of the D. H. Lawrence Society in mind. But mainly they are for anyone who has happened to wander in my direction. They are not all about literature. One that is relatively recent, for example, deals with the problem of money in sport and is called
'Local heroes' (see under 'Musings') . In 'Texts for our Times' there is a blog with the self-explanatory title
'Boris, Byron and the 2019 general election' and another that considers the relevance of Defoe's
Journal of the Plague Year to our condition today (in 2020).
Musings
December 22nd, 2017
Looking the part. In 1816 Lord Byron turned up in Milan, accompanied by a friend from his university days, John Cam Hobhouse. Their host was a man called di Breme who had been an important official when Lombardy was part of the Napoleonic empire.
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October 16th, 2017
Blogging in the 18th century We think of blogging as a recent phenomenon, like the selfie or screw-top wine bottles, and so no doubt it is. Yet it has its rough equivalent in the 1500-word essays that Dr Johnson turned out twice weekly at the beginning
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