My Fanlistings
Sites are listed according to their categories at The Fanlistings. (For instance, 'Literature' includes all individual book titles, whether or not they might be shelved under 'Literature' in a bookshop.)
Authors
- Richard Aldington
Title: Byronic
Online since: October 2004.Aldington (1892-1962) was an early modernist poet, novelist, critic and translator, one of the founders of Imagism. He also, for those who appreciate such things, had an entirely soap-operatic life.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Title: Labyrinths
Online since: August 2006.Borges (1899-1986) was an Argentine short story writer, essayist, poet and author of literary 'speculative' fiction.
- Mark Alexander Boyd
Title: A Mad Desire
Online since: February 2007.Boyd was a sixteenth-century poet, humanist scholar, soldier and adventurer, known today for a single sonnet in Scots. This is both a fanlisting for Boyd and a small informational site about him.
- Louise Glück
Title: Under Taurus
Online since: October 2004.Glück is a contemporary poet, the winner of numerous awards and a former Poet Laureate of the United States. This is my oldest fanlistng.
- H.D.
Title: Oread
Online since: March 2006.H.D. is known for her pioneering Imagist poems and her later long, epic poems, many of which reworked classical myth. She also wrote much autobiographical fiction.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Title: Crotchets Rampant
Online since: May 2005.Peacock (1785-1866), comic novelist and Romantic poet, may be an acquired taste but he's a delightful one. Bring on the scholarly humour, Shelley parodies and skulls!
Characters: Book/Movie
- Eilonwy
Title: Light Bearer
Online since: December 2006.
Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, is the heroine of Lloyd Alexander's classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain. This is a character shrine incorporating a fanlisting.
Fan Works
- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce fanfiction
Title: Sign it as Proof
Online since: April 2006.Wesley is one of the darkest characters in that very dark TV series, Angel.
Hobbies & Recreation
- Collecting books
Title: Bibliophily
Online since: June 2006.Book collecting is… well, where most of my money goes. This fanlisting is a monument to front free endpapers and gilt top edges.
Literature
- The Chronicles of Prydain
Title: Companions
Online since: February 2005.Classic high fantasy series for children and young adults, by Lloyd Alexander.
- Imagism
Title: Quintessence
Online since: November 2005.Imagism was an early twentieth-century poetry movement of debated significance. Its aim was to restore to English literature some of the precision and purity of Japanese poetry.