As a student of Oxford University, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch signed articles contributed to the Oxford University Magazine with the letter "Q," and he continued to use that signature all his life. Q had a remarkable, and yet dual, career: first, he publis...
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, commonly known as "Q," the initial with which he signed many of his works, was a reformer and reform writer primarily in working to improve secondary education in Cornwall and in contributing to the reform of the study of Englis...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prominent man of letters, one of a group of literary, often scholarly, journalists whose work filled the pages of the better magazines with short stories, book reviews, and causeries. As as...
Today is, as you can't have failed to notice, National Poetry Day. The nation is positively throbbing with anapaests and trochees, rondeaus and villanelles. Poets will be reading at the National Theatre and going into schools, community centres and bookshops around the country. Poetry...
We met Ezra Pound at Grace Lounsbery's house, he came home to dinner with us and he stayed and he talked about japanese prints among other things. Gertrude Stein liked him but did not find him amusing. She said he was a village explainer,...
You won't find any volumes of poetry in Don Scheidt's house. A retired tax collector who is quick to point out that the IRS is not a very poetic organization, Scheidt does not enjoy reading haiku, iambic pentameter or free...
When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?Recordings of the poets' works are available for free through PennSound, an online audio archive developed by professors at the University of...
