Word: caedmon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrible Superlatives. Assembled chronologically from Caedmon (circa 670) to Dylan Thomas, these footnotes and headstones have a variety of uses. Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives. What, for instance, is the best way to die? Surely it must be singing lustily, as did William Blake. Who invented the most uncomfortable method of fishing? The appropriately named Thomas Birch, who tried to make himself inconspicuous to the fish by dressing up as a tree. What is the most gallant method of repulsing a bore at a party? Undoubtedly, Robert Browning's: "But, my dear...