Jack Lynch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; harmless eccentric. @JackLynch00@c18.masto.host
Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation
Susan StewartJack Lynch@roopikarisam Ha! I don’t even remember having an article on Ps, so that gives you an idea how long ago it was (& how atrophied my brain is). Be sure to check out Susan Stewart’s Crimes of Writing, Adams’s Travelers and Travel Liars, & Keevak’s Pretended Asian.
Paperback, 1994
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse ...: Poetry
George HerbertJack Lynch@BrendonZatirka Others have mentioned concrete poetry; you've also got shape poems, as with George Herbert's "Altar."
Hardcover, 2016
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Paradise Lost: A Poem
Samuel JohnsonJack Lynch@bdjansenphd As Samuel Johnson said of Paradise Lost, “None ever wished it longer than it is.” Don’t go over time, though you’ll be surprised at how little you can squeeze into 15–20 minutes. Write for oral delivery. And have a blast.
Hardcover, 2016
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The Works of George Herbert: Poems...
George HerbertJack Lynch@BrendonZatirka Others have mentioned concrete poetry; you've also got shape poems, as with George Herbert's "Altar."
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Plays
John GayJack Lynch@NushPowell @kathylubey Did the same a few years ago (though it wasn’t, alas, cheap). Bond’s Spectator is one of the hard-to-find standard editions. The worst: John Gay’s plays. Still haven’t found a copy at a price I can justify. https://t.co/gYEbWndJKU
Paperback, 2010
$32.75$16.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal [by S. Johnson]., Samuel Johnson](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781175185358.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1750760247)
London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal [by S. Johnson].
Samuel JohnsonJack Lynch@TabitaSurge "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of, erm, people who, erm, don't feel 'English,' if you know what I mean." -- Samuel Johnson
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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
Jordan PeeleJack Lynch@SethRudy Most recent time I taught my Gothic class I wrapped it up with Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Seemed to go well.
Paperback, 2019
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Emma (1816). By: Jane Austen (Complete in three volume): Novel
Jane AustenJack Lynch@DrBibliomane In the last few months someone's been running an ad in TLS for a supposedly "newly discovered Jane Austen novel." I never realized it was this one.
Paperback, 2017
$15.47$7.74 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected With the Addition of Numerous Slang Phrases Collected From Tried Authorities
Francis GroseJack Lynch@songandjoy Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), though he’s reporting on a taxonomy of the “canting crew” that goes back to Holinshed in 1587.
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Robert GravesJack Lynch@friede I knew journalists Paul Moor who knew Robert Graves who in Good Bye to All That traces his own connection through Swinburne and WS Landor to Samuel Johnson. I plan on asking for an introduction in the afterlife.
Paperback, 1998
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