Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
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Julie Park
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Always glad to be reminded of work by @shannonmattern.bsky.social in the middle of my day
Finding Adam Smith on rhetoric to be unexpectedly delightful: "it is a great defect in the arrangement of a sentence when it has what they call a tail coming after it, that is when the sense appears to be concluded when it is not really so."
"The modest man will not use long sentences as they are either proper for declamation...or bespeak a confusion of Ideas...He would not either deliver himself in short sentences, as that would appear either like Snip-snap or the language of presumption and a dictating temper." Snip-snap!
These strawberries are so fresh, delicious and beautiful I had to share. Bad growing season for fruit in the Mid-Atlantic—there will be no peaches, no cherries, few berries, alas—because of an unexpected frost that killed the tender blossoms that had come out this spring. Blessed strawberries.
"Long sentences are generally inconvenient and no one will be apt to use them who has his thoughts in good order."
All the above from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Liberty Fund edition
In Alabama to deliver my keynote lecture for the British Women Writers Conference and startled to find that air conditioning is kind of a necessity at this time of year here. And to be “from the North” is a form of alterity.
Great British Women Writers Conference experience in Alabama last weekend w/fellow keynoter, the formidable Victorianist Liz Miller; thanks to Nicole Reynolds for the invitation! Slides from my talk in last slide. Sharp-eyed c18 manuscript book researchers will know what’s on the conference poster…
For years I thought it was just an evergreen sprig until an audience member at the Caxton Club—where I was delivering a lecture—pointed out it was a yew.
Thanks for sharing this, Matt!
