Tag: Notebooks
Some books I read in 2020
One of the very few consolations of Covid lockdowns has been that more people seem to have read more books during 2020. In the first half of the year fewer print books were sold, since bookshops were often closed, but UK sales of e-books increased by 17%, and audio books by 47%. I’ve certainly read […]
Coleridge’s ginger wine
Some think that the Notebooks are Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s masterwork. In them he would jot any thoughts that occurred to his omnivorous, lightning-fast mind, wherever he was. Snatches of poetry, quotations from other writers, jokes, lists of works he would write (most remained unwritten), apothegms, descriptions of landscapes, recollections, fragments of philosophy, memos to himself […]
