Does his long masterpiece elegize his best friend, Arthur Henry Hallam? |
Having seemingly eliminated the elemental from our own lives, we now elegize it via ground-floor history. |
The Internet itself offers proof of the enormous human desire to produce text — to pontificate, edit, elegize, redact, hash out, bloviate, opine and instruct. |
A European-American habit of history is to destroy things and then to elegize them, like the memorial to the last passenger pigeon. |
It manages to elegize Charles I and to register Marvell's doubts about Cromwell's scorched-earth tactics in Wexford and Drogheda. |
But is it possible to elegize the Gutenberg Age even as we blast into the Gutenberg Galaxy? |