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Today, we take a look at classicist Gilbert Highet’s delightful travelogue-poetry collection “Poets in a Landscape.” Showcasing the works from the best of the Roman poets—Vergil, Catullus, Horace, and more—Highet walks his readers through the Latin Golden Age of Poetry in a way that is at once accessible, interesting, informed, and passionate.

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Today, we take a look at classicist Gilbert Highet’s delightful travelogue-poetry collection “Poets in a Landscape.” Showcasing the works from the best of the Roman poets—Vergil, Catullus, Horace, and more—Highet walks his readers through the Latin Golden Age of Poetry in a way that is at once accessible, interesting, informed, and passionate.

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In our last day, Smoky Barnacle ends his tale where it all began. Called into the fairy world he never quite believed in to join the family he never quite belonged to, he ventures into the great unknown, apprehensive, but then with growing recognition once he understands his part in the tale. We are, after all, trying only to find our place in the world, and Smoky has found his.

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In our last day, Smoky Barnacle ends his tale where it all began. Called into the fairy world he never quite believed in to join the family he never quite belonged to, he ventures into the great unknown, apprehensive, but then with growing recognition once he understands his part in the tale. We are, after all, trying only to find our place in the world, and Smoky has found his.

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In our second-to-last day, we encounter Auberon Barnacle and his guide, Fred. Lost in the woods, and with Fred having turned into a tree, Auberon begins to doubt everything about himself: who he is, what he’s looking for, why he’s there. It’s only a supreme act of memory that keeps him grounded on the thing he longs for most in the world: finding the love he lost.

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In our second-to-last day, we encounter Auberon Barnacle and his guide, Fred. Lost in the woods, and with Fred having turned into a tree, Auberon begins to doubt everything about himself: who he is, what he’s looking for, why he’s there. It’s only a supreme act of memory that keeps him grounded on the thing he longs for most in the world: finding the love he lost.

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We’re entering the final three days of our exploration, and all of our main characters have been called to the forest of Edgegood for a Fairies’ Parliament. What is to happen there, who will be there, and for what reason the parliament has been called—nobody knows. In Crowley’s glistening prose, ambiguities abound. But one thing is clear: a homecoming is being called, after which nobody will ever be the same.

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We’re entering the final three days of our exploration, and all of our main characters have been called to the forest of Edgegood for a Fairies’ Parliament. What is to happen there, who will be there, and for what reason the parliament has been called—nobody knows. In Crowley’s glistening prose, ambiguities abound. But one thing is clear: a homecoming is being called, after which nobody will ever be the same.

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In today’s section, Auberon Barnacle hears from George Mouse what happened to the changeling Lilac (not to be confused with Sophie and Smoky’s actual daughter). A truly explosive story awaits. This is the kind of writing that leaves you slack-jawed and shaking your head in wonder.

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In today’s section, Auberon Barnacle hears from George Mouse what happened to the changeling Lilac (not to be confused with Sophie and Smoky’s actual daughter). A truly explosive story awaits. This is the kind of writing that leaves you slack-jawed and shaking your head in wonder.

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