"The Archangel loved heights."
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 16:05:12 CST 2016
If you're an Adams, you can't very well be a closet intellectual.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> opening line. Michael it is.
>
> Seems a Harvard scholar-critic of the time, one Barrett Wendell, is the
> one who
> recommended that this self-published work be republished by the
> Association of
> Architects (and Sumpin Else). Old Henry was agin it.
>
> Barrett was famous in his time and, coincidentally, I had an English
> teacher whom
> I shudda kept in touch with with the same name over 50 years later. I
> wonder.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the 1913 edition of Adams' Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres (from the
> > Harvard Library, in Google Books),
> > this phrase as well as the phrase "the Black Country" of England are used
> > in present-day contrast to the 'day' in which Chartres was built.
> >
> > The writer sorta wonders whether and thereby hopes another unified 13th
> Century
> > could come.
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