Morning roundup …

… courtesy of Dave Lull.

… Peter Geach - obituary.

Geach’s interest in the thought of both Wittgenstein and Aquinas made him an honorary founder of the philosophical school that called itself “analytical Thomism”. But while Geach was a philosopher and Catholic, his philosophy went wherever the force of logic demanded, rather than being tailored to a religious conclusion. “To me it appears blasphemous to say God is 'above’ logic,” he wrote. “Logic is not partisan, and knows nothing but to strike straight; but the sword is invincible, bearing the Maker’s name.”

… Conor McPherson: 'TV is where the creative work happens now'.

I'll take his word for it.

… FOR WORLD LITERATURE.

Learn the literature of your native language first, and learn it reasonably well. Then you have something to bring to the literature of other languages.

… In case you ordered: What people talk about when they talk about Robert Frost: A Few Notes on Indexing.

… What Is It About Middlemarch?

Harold Bloom … was right to note the weirdness of this part of Eliot’s ­project—or rather, the weirdness of it working. She was, he wrote, the only “major novelist, before or since, whose overt ­moralizings constitute an aesthetic virtue rather than a disaster.” Which raises a question: How does she get away with it? And, beyond the basic exhortation to be good, what exactly is it that she wants us to do?

… And the winner is: John Poch wins 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize.

… Life imitates art: “PERSON OF INTEREST”: THE TV SHOW THAT PREDICTED EDWARD SNOWDEN.