Tag: 16th century

• The Faerie Queene, Book 2: A Reflection that includes What the Author Could Have Been Thinking

  

  I finished Faerie Queene, Book 2 this evening! It is a medieval era epic poem in early modern English, which is the period of English language that Shakespeare was writing and also known as Elizabethan English, spanning a few hundred years. Faerie Queene would’ve been written just a little earlier than Shakespeare’s writing—in the mid-1500s.…

  03/10/2023 4:08 pm

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• An Intoxicating Book, A Bird Tries to Break into My Window, and More Recent Life Stories

  

  this flower was scented like strawberry and sugarcane 📰📻📚🌸 Intoxicated by A Book and Some Flowers I’d found a book recently called The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, and I noticed before I read the book that it was scented so beautifully like the beach by the sea and a sweetly potent suntan fragrance…I breathed…

  06/08/2022 7:08 am

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