Book of last week: Inventions of the March Hare

I finally got around to reading this book--which I really enjoyed. There's some surprisingly (to me) ribald pieces.

This volume is special to me because it's edited by the formidable scholar Christopher Ricks. I took one Shakespeare class with Prof. Ricks during my first year at Boston University. He was the most charming person--his intelligence was so enlivening. He had our class over for wine and cheese one evening; he spoke about Bob Dylan, one of his areas of expertise. I remember seeing his much younger wife and young child (a daughter?).

My formal education as an English undergraduate was totally remiss in both poetry, aside from the Victorians, and early 20th century American writers. I read mostly European existentialists and post-war authors as well as African American novelists of the Harlem Renaissance and civil rights era. I'm taking this year to engage in some auto-didactic reading to fill in some major gaps.

Other writers on my list...forthcoming in the next post as my son is "starving" right now. Duties...