Rhyming with Death December 8, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
Death concentrates the mind wonderfully and, at least in the east, a longstanding custom has been to pen a final poem: a last communiqué to the world. This custom stretches far back into the Middle Ages and perhaps the greatest thing to recommend it is the brevity of the works in question So we […]
The Last ‘Battle’ of the Revenge August 28, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing is not a great one for anniversaries but for Flores, 31 August 1591, a naval ‘battle’ – if a fire-fight between a solitary ship, the Revenge, and three dozen enemy can be so called – he will make an exception. (Actually we are […]
