{"id":27563,"date":"2021-01-24T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27563"},"modified":"2021-01-23T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T23:52:20","slug":"as-the-prophets-foretold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/24\/as-the-prophets-foretold\/","title":{"rendered":"As The Prophets Foretold"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got this book at ABC Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When I got it home, I did put it directly on the read shelves in the poetry corner, where I discovered that although I do indeed have a volume with Tennyson Illustrated on the cover, they are not, in fact, in the same set nor are they by the same publisher. I guess everyone at the end of the 19th century was doing lush editions of current (!) poets.<\/p>\n

I did put it immediately on the read shelf next to the Tennyson and the other collections of poetry from the 1800s that I own (except for the one that I am currently reading, sort of). I mean, I did buy some slightly younger (early 20th century) reading copies of Longfellow’s work last spring<\/a> from ABC Books when I was placing orders. So I have those to read and later put on the shelf beside this book.<\/p>\n

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The nice display shelf has the old Tennyson, the new old Longfellow, the Ogden Nash I have read over the years<\/a>, the Wordsworth and Millay my sainted mother bought me for Christmas thirty (!) years ago<\/a>, and some Riley and Whittier. I’ve had to start double-stacking books even here (which is why Jane Eyre<\/em><\/a> is on a poetry shelf), so I have hidden an embarrassingly large selection of Rod McKuen<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, gentle reader, does this move me into the category of blue-blood book collector, or am I still in my more comfortable blue collar mere book accumulator?<\/p>\n

I suppose I will turn a corner if I have an insurance agent give me a rider on my homeowner insurance for the books. I’m just afraid to have them appraised and found wanting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got this book at ABC Books. When I got it home, I did put it directly on the read shelves in the poetry corner, where I discovered that although I do indeed have a volume with Tennyson Illustrated on the cover, they are not, in fact, in the same set nor are they by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27565,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions\/27565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}