Australian Poetry since 1788 by Geoffrey Lehmann & Robert Gray

Author:Geoffrey Lehmann & Robert Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A UNSW Press book

Homage to Ferd. Holthausen

At a street bookstall in Karlsruhe, my father

bought for my schoolboy son, then starting German,

Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache

by Ferd. Holthausen, Professor of Kiel.

Lovely old binding, elegant type, good paper,

printed in Leipzig, 1917.

I like to think of Ferd. Holthausen sitting

with Skeat and Sweet and part of the New Oxford

(war having cut the final letters off)

working on his Büchlein (it’s pocket sized)

transcribing words while Europe raged outside:

Breviloquent, compagination, dittany,

griskin, harmel, irrision, kilderkin, nimb,

obnubilation, oleraceous, parpent –

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