Taliesin on Mead
The Book of Taliesin is a late Middle Welsh version of the ales of Gwion Bach and Taliesin, mostly around the court of Maelgyn Gynedd. It was written in the 1550s, the same [..]
Tag: poetry
Sometimes students really get it
I used to teach Anatomy and Physiology – a twelve-month long, three hour a week course, half anatomy, half physiology. A&P has a deadly reputation for difficulty and tedium that it [..]
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
The year is 1910. The southeastern U.S. is still recovering from the Civil war, which devastated the region though it ended years before. Edwin Mims and my great-grandfather Bruce Payne [..]