Encountering Bottum’s English versions of Latin poetry provoked the thought in me that this has always been his own natural idiom. Latinate and aphoristic, sagely observed but—with important exceptions—lacking in the precise observation of minutiae necessary for realism.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Appreciation …
…. The Neo-Latinate Imagination of Joseph Bottum | Acton Institute. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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