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Prologue p. xxii-xxiii: '[As a poet] he is like an archeologist uncovering objects that have not been seen for many decades, bringing them into the light, examining them, some small pieces, some curious bones and broken bits, and some shining treasures.' 2/

Prologue p. xxii-xxiii: 'Hardy was a writer who made many of his best efforts out of incidents and stories he had collected and put aside, sights stored up, feelings he had kept to himself, anger he had not shown to the world. 1/

'The universe is so structured that things do not quite work out rightly if men are not diligent in their concern for others. The self cannot be self without other selves. I cannot reach fulfillment without thou. Social psychologists tell us that we cannot truly be persons unless we interact with other persons. All life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality...'

'[The American people] have been persuaded to accept token victories as indicative of genuine and satisfactory progress.... ["Tokenism"] is a pallative which relieves emotional distress, but leaves the disease and its ravages unaffected. It tends to demobilize and relax the militant spirit which alone drives us forward to real change.'

'Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes'

Dockery and Son

'He desires the life of the mind and the senses, beauty, history, nature, pleasure, and sex, and the privacy and freedom in which all things flourish.'

Recent acquisitions:

📖 A Choice of Chaucer's Verse Selected with an Introduction by Neville Coghill
📖 A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
📖 Figuring by Maria Popova
📖 Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

Recent fiction acquisitions:

📖 Saint Brigid's Bones: A Celtic Adventure by Philip Freeman
📖 Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife by Susan Signe Morrison
📖 Hild by Nicola Griffith
📖 Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest by Ann McGovern (Given to me by my teen daughter. I collect books about Hood and this is my 68th)
📖 The Nightingale Gallery by Paul Doherty

Recent acquisitions:

📖 God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie
📖 The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
📖 Brave Enterprise: A History of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon by A. K. Chesterton

'At thirteen, [Orwell] won a scholarship to the most elite [public school] of all, Eton, where he spent another four years, acquiring an accent that marked him as an outsider among the poor without making him an inside among the rich.'

"...in 1967, Bergman was already contemplating his demise on Fårö: 'When I am dead, I want them to stuff me and put me in the cutting room. That's where I'll sit and nod over the desk with the help of an inserted contraption. The summer tourists will put a Swedish crown in a box to see the marvelous display. The money could go to young film producers. But until then, I just pray to be left in peace in my own home.'"

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Showings by Julian of Norwich
📖 Understanding British English: Bridging the Gap Between the English Language and its American Counterpart by Margaret E. Moore
📖 'Norwegian Folk Tales from the Collection of Asbjornsen and Moe'
📖 'Tales of King Arthur Illustrated' by Thomas Mallory, Edited and Abridged with an Introduction by Michael Senior

Recent acquisitions:

📖 W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne
📖 Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
📖 Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
📖 The Three Edwards: War and State in England 1272-1377 by Michael Prestwich
📖 Early Irish Monasteries by Conleth Manning

'Liv Ullmann has written, "When the camera is as close as Ingmar's sometimes gets, it doesn't only show a face but also what kind of life this face has seen."'

'No director has torn at his open wounds so insistently as Bergman.'

'(Bergman) was by nature a maverick when young, and inevitably that collided with the dogma that informed every aspect of life at home.'

'The protection of the Commonwealth was a secular issue, which made protecting the nation from God's wrath similar to protecting it from a Spanish invasion. It became increasingly important that magistrates protect God's honor lest He rain pestilence, famine, war, and recession on England.'

'To see the Crown and lay people greedily snatching up church property, even if justified by higher ideals, must have bred an opportunistic state of mind and a flexible conscience. To acquire a dissolved chantry and close the village school was not an act of piety. Some people tried to expiate their greed with new schools and other gifts, but the example remained negative.'

In practice the communities of England looked less like the New Jerusalem than like confessionally confused commonwealths in which people of various opinions about ecclesiology and soteriology mixed indiscriminately and used religion when it was convenient.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Harvest by Jim Crace
📖 Eight Modern Writers (Oxford History of English Literature) by J.I.M. Stewart
📖 Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
📖 London's Lost Rivers by Paul Talling
📖 Suffolk Summer by John T. Appleby

Recent Penguin Monarchs acquisitions (only $2 each!):

📖 Stephen by Watkins
📖 Henry II by Barber
📖 Richard I by Ambridge
📖 Henry III by Church
📖 Henry VI by Ross
📖 Edward IV by Pollard

View them at litsy.com/web/user/bibliothecarivs.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Sword with the Golden Hilt by Margery Evernden
📖 The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
📖 Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
📖 The Conquerers by Thomas B. Costain
📖 The Essential Erasmus edited by John P. Dolan (gift from my good friend Shawn)
📖 Ecohumanism edited by Robert B. Tapp

View them at litsy.com/web/user/bibliothecarivs.