Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 24/09/2026Born #OTD “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘The Crack-Up’ in Esquire February 1936 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 24/08/2026Word of the day: Hendiadys The use of two words joined by and to express a single idea. For example, nice and warm. From the Greek hen dia duoin, meaning ‘one thing by two’. Why use one word when two will do? 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 11/08/2026Word of the day: Villanelle A 19-line poem, or, for a better explanation: poets.org/glossary/vil... 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 05/08/2026Virginia Woolf argued that writers need financial independence and a room of their own. In 'A Room of One's Own' (1928), she put that figure at £500 a year. In today's money (adjusted for inflation), that's about £40,000. That's it. That's the post. 010
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 21/07/2026We're thrilled that "The Last Days of Immanuel Kant" by Thomas De Quincey, introduced by A. C. Grayling @acgrayling.bsky.social , is part of the @waterstones.bsky.social Summer Pre-order Campaign. 📚 25% off with code SUMMER26 🗓 21–24 July 🔗 www.waterstones.com/book/the-las... 020
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 09/06/2026Another Cicero quote Recommend to also watch this great video on the origins of Lorem Ipsum : www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1P... 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 27/04/2026When clarity, wisdom, and politics occasionally met: “Wisdom without eloquence is but of little advantage to states, but eloquence without wisdom is often most mischievous, and is never advantageous to them.” Cicero, De Inventione, Book I (trans. C.D. Yonge) 010
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 04/03/2026This is how we validate eBOoks on a Mac at Hesperus: hesperus.press/blogs/news/e... 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 03/03/2026To everyone 'monitoring the situation' #readabookmonth 010
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 12/01/2026In Japanese, the word philosophy is 'Tetsugaku' (哲学): 'gaku' meaning science/study and 'tetsu' meaning wisdom ==> 'study of knowledge' But it used to be translated during the early Meiji period as Ki-Tetsugaku, where 'ki' (希) means to seek ==> 'study of seeking wisdom' 010
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 23/12/2025I’m curious to see how it handles the Cyclops episode. When the Cyclops Polyphemus asks Ulysses his name, he replies Outis, Greek for “Nobody” Later, when blinded, Cyclops cries out: “Nobody is killing me by fraud.” There is poetry in Homer that will be hard to rival on screen 100
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 22/12/2025A Song Bewailing the Time of Christmas, So Much Decayed in England from 1624 Full text: shakespeareauthorship.com/xmas/ 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 09/12/2025Sweet article by Robert McCrum with a sweeter Oscar Wilde quote: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... 021
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 04/12/2025🇺🇸 Literacy 2024 -54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th grade level -Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year -US ranks 36th in literacy www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li... 010
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 30/11/2025Those that for claps do write [...] A man should seek great glory, and not broad. To John Donne by Ben Jonson 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 25/11/2025🚨 Autumn Budget incoming! Austerity and cuts don’t fix the economy — they make it worse The 2025 updated edition of 'Who Needs More Cuts?', with a foreword by ex-Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, lays out a better path for Britain 🇬🇧 For preorders: 🔗 hesperus.press/products/who... 030
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 12/11/2025We now accept USDC stablecoin as payment! If you think crypto’s about to collapse, what better way to exit the markets than by spending it on good books? Link 🔗 : www.hesperus.press 010
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 28/10/2025“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus 000
Hesperus Press @hesperus.press · 26/09/2025Writers should look to T.S. Eliot for inspiration: banker by day, writer by night — almost like a literary superhero. Born #OTD 020
