This post from Colm MacCrossan, one of our editors at the University of Oxford, illustrates how the EEBO-TCP corpus can shed new light on old proverbs–and the challenge of sifting through and making sense of the results. The links throughout this post point to EEBO, the version of EEBO-TCP hosted by the University of Michigan [...]
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Back to School: A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole
It is the first week of the fall semester at the University of Michigan. The campus is teeming with eager, bright young faces—many of whom don’t have the slightest idea where they are going. With any luck, over the next few months they’ll learn their way, without losing their enthusiasm. A New Discovery of the [...]
Will you TCP my Valentine?
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we bring you a smattering of poetry, puzzles, and song for sweethearts! One of my favorites is a poem printed on a wreath of heart-shaped knots, from Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : [...]
