In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language - By Arika Okrent by Jones, Graham M.

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Human Nature at Sea by Helmreich, Stefan

“…Nineteenth-century Americans and Europeans envisaged the ocean as a sublime space, at once frightening and inviting. Romantic poets such as Byron and Shelley celebrated the sea as a seductive substance with which we humans might seek to merge, dissolving our bodies into the nourishing matrix of life itself. …”
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Review of Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism by Jackson, Noel B.

“…This faculty has long been the most misunderstood, underestimated gift of poets. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge (in the Biographia) codified the role of fancy as mere handmaiden to the sublime powers of the creative Imagination, he consigned this faculty to a position of ornamental irrelevance from which it has barely managed to escape. …”
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Marvell's Now by Raman, Shankar

“…To don the “corslet of the hall” is to take up an armour that not only resides in or decorates the public space but belongs to it, standing metonymically for the kind of engagement that “must now” be undertaken by both Cromwell and poet. Reading the “So” of line nine as “thus” or “in such a manner” sets the seal on the implied alignment between the poet’s imperative in the present and the political restlessness that drove Cromwell from the “inglorious arts of peace” to “adventurous war” (lines 10-11). …”
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Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics by Papert, Seymour A.

“…Being a mathematician is no more definable as 'knowing' a set of mathematical facts than being a poet is definable as knowing a set of linguistic facts. …”
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The Time of Beauty by Jackson, Noel B.

“…Whether this work takes its cue from Newell Ford's description of Keatsian beauty as "prefigurati ve truth," Paul de Man's characterization of Keats's imagination as largely "prospective" in its orientation, or Patricia Parker's account of the "perpetual 'à venir in Keats," it is the forward-looking poet whose voice has most often been claimed for politics.7 Hazlitt's Essay on the Principles of Human Action furnishes a guidebook for the ethical dimensions of this self-divesting orientation towards futurity; the negatively capable chameleon poet is hailed as its literary embodiment.…”
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Book Review of: Corinne J. Saunders, A Companion to Medieval Poetry by Bahr, Arthur W.

“…Yeager's “The Poetry of John Gower,” which treats the poet's French and Latin works extensively—are the most notable and worthy exceptions to this rule.)…”
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More than "just shopping:" personalization, privacy and the (ab)use of data by Black, Jason, Downes, Kieran, Field, Frank, Mozdzanowska, Aleksandra

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