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Final Words on Cicero? And Thoughts on Future Plans

2/24/2015

 
Shackleton Bailey's biography is finished. All in all, I would recommend it to anyone interested in Cicero's life and letters (especially focusing on the letters) without having to read the almost (or more than?) 900 extant. His selections are excellent, woven into a historical context (absent from the Penguin edition that I read). Because I read both things concurrently, often enough in the biography I came across for the second time an extract which had already struck me as noteworthy on my first reading. In fact I have little bookmarks throughout the pages of snippets I'd like to post here.

That may prove itself too time-consuming. One awaits the coming of spring; and then a myriad non-literary projects await. My literary projects themselves seem unimportant to me. That play stopped at midpoint? Why bother? At this site I would like to get a couple of essays—in their unexpurgated form—up on display. Much ado has been made recently about a letter by the young Lincoln (now on display at the Morgan Library in New York) in which he castigates an editor for changing his wording. Editors do come up with the darndest things, and I would like my reading public to have access to the original versions of a couple things floating about there, even as I did with the Claude McKay.

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