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There are also on display several different editions illustrating the development of the story of Reynard the Fox. One of these, printed in England in 1701 is entitled "History of Reynard the Fox, Newly Corrected and Purged from All Grossness in Phrase and Matter." The other editions are in Latin or German...
Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...
...often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking and a fierce conflagration, and the hero sails away having accomplished nothing more than the reader's unmitigated excitement. Author Masefield, famed and beloved as the poet of Dauber, Reynard the Fox, etc., does not, one hopes, take his novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard Harker, to show that the Sage of Boar's Hill knows anything about novels except to start...
...world. In 1902, derelict in Manhattan, he got a job in a saloon serving beer, washing glasses, taking care of the bartender's baby. The poet Yeats encouraged him to write. His works include: The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow in the Bye-Street, Dauber, The Daffodil Fields, Reynard the Fox, Gallipoli (prose), Enslaved...
...called a "frog," and in his first half-year after entering a university he is termed a "fox," which is equivalent to our "Freshman." Why he should be thus called is not easy to say, as he is not at this time supposed to be possessed of any of Reynard's characteristics, unless it may be his love for chicken. In the latter part of the last century the word "fishing" was exactly equivalent to "toadying...