poetry
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Spoilers!
Speaking of Chaucer, here’s a post I wrote on my old blog in January of last year. Enjoy! Canterbury Tales Prologueca. 1400-1410, mssEL 26 C 9, Huntington Digital Library Last spring I had planned to take a class on Chaucer at my local college but that didn’t work out for a number of reasons. To… Continue reading
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Back to school!
Me. I’m going back to school as an undergrad student. When my youngest child graduated homeschool in 2021 I decided to take a French class from our local college. I’d been wanting to study French since I was 13 years old and reading Hercule Poirot stories. And the more I read English literature and history,… Continue reading
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Recommended editions of Spenser’s Faerie Queene
This is the third post in a series. Some of the editions I recommend below come with scholarly essays, but the important thing to keep in mind is what C.S. Lewis says about reading it in his chapter on Edmund Spenser in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. He says that while reading commentaries can… Continue reading