Author Archives: Mark A.

In John Milton: Completes Poem and Major Prose, edited by Merritt Y. Hughes, the text states in the introduction to L’ Allegro and Il Penseroso: “Bernard MEINSKY’S [emphasis mine] illustrations in L’ Allegro and Il Penseroso (London, 1947) excel Blake’s in emphasis on the erotic potential in L’ Allegro, but do not try to compete […]

I had to remove the images from The Nativity Ode, so if you haven’t seen those, and would like to, let me know. William Blake produced these prints in 1816. I wasn’t able to get the graphics of what were the back of each print, which included Blake’s written title and comments of the design. […]

Well…sometimes blogging is like this. I do have to say it is extremely gratifying when a person takes the time to comment on a post. Although, I am happy I’ve never gotten the “‘yuo are teh sUxx0r!’ from Anonymous.” It does upset me when I think of something that I want to say during the […]

I have no words to describe this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5544502248&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Does this surprise anyone? Sure as hell didn’t surprise me.

I am amazed by this story. Apparently some science fiction and fantasy writers were annoyed with some comments made a publisher by the name of PublishAmerica. Never heard of them? Neither had I, and there is a very good reason why we hadn’t heard of them. Anyway these supposedly well-known writers (I’m still trying to […]

Update on 2/11/05: I took these down to conserve some web space and display some newer stuff. If you wanna see these let me know. For anyone interested: An edition of Milton’s poem “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” appeared in 1923 (according to our Hughes book) with six illustrations by William Blake. These beautiful […]

What is it with the Christian leaders in this country? Jerry Falwell thought Tinky-Winky was gay and that 9/11 was the result of God’s anger brought upon by, among other things, feminists and “pagans.” (It was Lewis Black that asked “Pagans? Aren’t they a motorcycle group?”) Now James Dobson apparently thinks Spongebob Squarepants is among […]

I’m sure you’ve noticed, but in case you haven’t, at the top right of the screen there is a button that says “next blog.” Click on it, and you’ll be transported to a random person’s blog. Sometimes when I don’t have a lot going on (no sarcastic comments) I like to see what other people […]

Just a quick thought: I think we (and by we I mean myself and the two other people who view this site) should be allowed to reclaim the word awful. No more shall it mean “extremely bad or unpleasant,” but we should strive to use the more logical, yet more archaic, definition of “filled with […]