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Recollections in Tranquility–a time delay

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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.“ -William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, 1802 Perhaps Wordsworth’s insight into poetry also extends to blogs and what I am calling “Itinerary Lit.”  For me, … Continue reading

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The story of the Roman War and a tentative itinerary

The genre of “literary landscape”–imaginative, creative non-fiction responses to the landscape–and the genre of literary travel itineraries have a long and popular history.  And this is what this blog is about–reading the Roman War chapter of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur … Continue reading

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