Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Elizabeth Barrett Browning--

I was surprised to find The Curse about 10 years ago, but I did not know Elizabeth Barrett Browning was so political and indeed wrote more political than love poetry.

It is all shadowed somewhat by the image portrayed in the play/movie The Barretts of Wimpole Street, but she really was very political and her works are all here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16646/16646-h/16646-h.htm

and their letters have all been digitized, though hard to read, and are in Austin, TX, imagine.


KMKaung
9-29-2015

Yuan Dynasty and death of Kublai Khan--from wiki

The Yuan dynasty created the "Han Army" (漢軍) out of defected Jin troops and an army of defected Song troops called the "Newly...