The Other Walk Essays Author:Sven Birkerts The Other Walk is a series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow time — Throughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country’s foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in his late fifties, he has clocked up many thousands of hours of ... more »reflection. It shows in his prose, which proceeds at a refreshingly deliberative pace as it draws the reader into his patterns and rhythms.
In this deeply appealing and engaging collection of essays, Birkerts looks back through his own life, as well as at the generations before him, and ahead at the lives of his children. We read how the writer witnesses his son’s frightening sailing accident, how he feels when he encounters his own prose from many years ago, how finding a cigarette lighter or a lost ring releases a cascade of memories. The objects he sees around him—old friends, remembered places—are excavated, their layers exposed.
But most winning of all is the emerging character of Birkerts himself. We come to have great respect for this competitive but deeply loyal friend, the caring father who respects his children’s independence even as he tries to connect with them, the traveler, the onetime bookseller, the writer at all stages of his writing life, and throughout it all, the attentive, passionate reader.
Anglo-Latin authors --
Old English glosses --
Excerpts from the Rushworth Gospels in Ms Junius 76 (S.C. 5187) --
Seeing a camel through the eye of a needle : Matthew 1, 6 and Aldred's marginalia --
Anglo-Saxon authors --
Cross-cultural background of Anglo-Saxon society : Ælfric's rendition --
Passage rendered "on ure wisan" in Ælfric's homily on Judith --
Lilie not mentioned in Ælfric's homily on Judith --
The Old-English hagusteald as the first element of the place-names "hexham" and "hestercombe" --
Importance of researches into personal names« less
The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members!
Retail Price:$15.00 Buy New (Paperback): $12.29 (save 18%) or Become a PBS member and pay $8.39+1 PBS book credit (save 44%)