Everybody’s favorite computational poem “The Menologium” has been posted, well, yesterday. No idea what I will do next though I am currently trying to get through “Seasons for Fasting” as well as Meters of Boethius XIX. But other pastures looked more interesting, so maybe I’ll take a quick trip through the poems from the Anglo-Saxon … Continue reading Menologium posted…
News
Maxims I & II posted
Two of the wisdom poems are now posted in their proper place!
Meters XVI, XVII & XVIII now posted
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Meters XIV and XV posted
Bunch of short ones are coming up. So XIV and XV fell out today, and I’m almost done with XVI (it will be coming soon!)Is this series actually becoming fun to translate? Maybe so…
Meters XIII posted!
Metes of Boethius XIII has been posted in its proper place. Who knew that conative bodies (a la Spinoza, via Jane Bennett) were a Boethian idea! Check it out — it even uses the word for “striving”!
Meters of Boethius XI & XII added
Check them out on the Meters of Boethius page. This was honestly the first of these poems that was actually fun to translate, so I have high hopes for the other twenty!Stay tuned for more soon. While I’m at my NEH seminar in Kalamazoo, Michigan this next month, I’m bringing my volume of the Meters with me, … Continue reading Meters of Boethius XI & XII added…