... T. S. Eliot , Helen Hoyt , Orrick Johns and David O'Neil - to name a few of ... Infinity'- In dreams I have been swept through space On a star - hung swing ... quotes of himself these words of some plain soldier : " Our commander ...

This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the ...

Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.

... T. S. Eliot an American . Upon the rest- upon Mr. Lewis , upon Gaudier ... quote for you a few words that poor Gaudier wrote in the trenches . I do not ... infinity . I have made an experiment . Two days ago I pinched from an ...

... quote from my colleague Erwin Panofsky. The engraving Melencolia I, he says, ". . . typifies the artist of the ... infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake, and pulls it down to earth, no one knows ...