Pantheon Poets publishes one of his love poems to celebrate. See the illustrated blog post here and the poem with an English translation here.
The immortal Marcel Proust was born on 10 July 1871. To celebrate, Pantheon Poets posts a recently-published love poem written when he was doing his military service. See the original and a parallel translation here.
Psychology, Homeric slang and literary reference at a dinner from Proust’s masterpiece, the point being that, in those days (around 1890), every educated person knew something about the classics. Today things have changed, and one of the purposes of Pantheon Poets is to offer non-classicists a way to fill the gap.
In today’s post here, Westbrook uses clerihews to poke fun at famous novelists and the cantankerous critic FR Leavis.
