Eric Weiskott @ericweiskott
writer, teacher, literary historian, “artisanal philologist.” he / him. 🍞 / 🌹s sites.bc.edu/ericweiskott Brookline, MA Joined January 2015-
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Fri, March 27: "'A poem ends / when the sound of it is finished': Reading John Gower with Elizabeth Willis," a Lecture by Eric Weiskott. Guilford Parlor. 3:15 p.m. How Willis, a contemporary poet, makes an effective conversation partner for Gower, ‘frenemy’ of Geoffrey Chaucer
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.@BostonCollege will host an event Nov. 18 celebrating the new book 'Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from Boston College' featuring essays by BC English Dept. faculty as well as undergrads and graduate students. bc.edu/content/bc-web…
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hardly a shock, but this remains the case—and it should not. One of the stranger more remarkable books of the past couple of years and crickets except for @ericweiskott who wrote an excellent review in LARB
Elizabeth Willis' "Liontaming in America" has received only one review (by my count), what
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Coming soon! Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text by William Langland, edited by @ericweiskott 📖 Learn more and preorder your copy ➡️ tinyurl.com/munxshrs #williamlangland #piersplowman #alliterativeverse #dreamvision #textualcriticism
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This video of Zohran Mamdani confronting Tom Homan in March was the first time I ever heard about him and I was sold on the spot. This is the energy I expect from my mayor and every single elected Democrat (Video: @mahoneyw)
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Aside from bogus accusations of antisemitism and Islamic terrorism or bizarre racist rants, the pro-Trump right has struggled to formulate a response to Zohran Mamdani's electoral win in New York. My latest: postsfromunderground.ghost.io/the-right-stru…
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One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known. A thread of some examples: Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:
I'm very excited to announce the forthcoming publication of my @UExeterPress edition of Piers Plowman A, the earliest version of Langland's poem, reedited from the manuscripts and with on-page glosses and notes exeterpress.co.uk/products/piers…
new book on Nabokov from @BostonCollege ed. @MaximDShrayer youtube.com/watch?v=zx8i6P…
Eric Weiskott retweeted
New book alert: 'Nabokov on the Heights,' edited by @MaximDShrayer, features essays of scholarship and criticism connected to Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov written by @BostonCollege students, alumni & faculty. academicstudiespress.com/9798887197296/
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In @BCBookmarks 📚 The experimental hybrid work "Cycle of Dreams" by English Professor @EricWeiskott pairs translation and original poetry in refashioning and modernizing William Langland’s 14th-century dream vision, "Piers Plowman." on.bc.edu/PiersPlowman_B…
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mahmoud khalil’s letter just released… i have chills. what an insane amount of moral clarity in the face of the empire
did. . .did dark energy write this article?
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Penelope in the Odyssey
@grahamscheper fyi the article of mine that Rafa is disputing doesn't say proto-Germanic meter was identical to OE meter. I said there was no good reason to believe it allowed the wonky forms that it would have to allow, if parts of Widsith were pre-migration
a new conversation with Katina Rogers about our two @punctum_books books vimeo.com/1064424357
@CFoxtrot52 are you always this funny or is it a bit
part of white privilege is the privilege to be “just now hearing about” some longstanding injustice—yet to assume anyway that you, the latecomer, have special insight into it that others, working on it for years, lack
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