A columnist once called me "one of Oregon's most precious natural resources" -- who, 15 years later, wouldn't give me the time of day.
Moral: If you get strokes, enjoy them while you can ha ha.
Rhyme War: Shadwell vs. Dryden
| On this day in 1692 the British poet and playwright Thomas Shadwell died. Shadwell wrote eighteen plays and became poet laureate but, as the Columbia History of English Literature puts it, "he enjoyed a popularity in his own day which is not easily explicable in ours." This is utter kindness compared to contemporary John Dryden, who enthroned Shadwell as "The King of Dullness." |
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clipped from www.todayinliterature.com
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