If you were queen of pleasure, and I were king of pain: Great poem by Swinburne
On a recent series of flights, between getting work done and staving off perhaps the most magnificent migraine I’ve had in years (sinus and altitude induced, who can say, but fitting for an Ash Wednesday), I dipped again into Nicholson Baker’s clever comic novel about poetry, The Anthologist, and read about the Victorian poet, inventor […]