Last changed: August 23, 2008

I am disgusted with Geocities—or rather their corporate ueber-parasite, Yahoo. To maintain these meagre contents, comprising less thatn 15 megaBytes, I must continue to pay them. If I choose to opt for 100 MB, at the same price, I may do so, but addresability to the current contents will be lost. I guess I'm willing to pay the price for having been such a sucker.

All the new content I have created—and there is quite a bit of it—is located at http://bob.fooguru.org.

Over the years, I've developed a lot of documents and other materials which may be of some use to others. This page is the index for the materials that are in the public domain.

I used to publish an on-line column, Your Daily Poetry Break. Each work day it featured a poem, usually from Steve Spanoudis' The Poets' Corner. A brief commentary accompanies each poem.

This site is home to the following complete texts, most of which appear nowhere else on the web. Some have been extensively annotated.

• Annotated texts.
  • From the Harvard Library
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, added February 2006
  • John Woolman's Journal, added February, 2006
  • Fruits of Solitude by William Penn, added July 27, 2006
  • Other annotated texts.
    • Carlyle's The French Revolution, A History, added March 6, 2003.
    • Don Juan by Lord Byron (annotated through Canto IV)
• Other texts.
  • An edition of Emma Lazarus's translation of Heine's Poems and Ballads, with side-by-side English and German.
  • Poems of American Patriotism edited by Brander Matthews.
  • Anacreontics.
  • Poems by Ralph Hodgson (1917).
  • Some Imagist Poets, An Anthology, 1915.
  • The first 7 books of Alexander Pope's Iliad.
  • Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913 edited by William Stanley Braithwaite
  • The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers by Lord Byron
  • Hebrew Melodies by Lord Byron
  • The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
  • The Vision of Judgment by Lord Byron
  • A Treasury of War Poems by George Herbert Clarke
  • The Bookman Anthology of Verse [1922] edited by John Farrar
  • The Babb Ballads by W.S. Gilbert
  • In Flanders Fields and other poems by John McCrae
  • Georgian Poetry 1911-1912 edited by Sir Edward Marsh
  • Georgian Poetry 1913-1915 edited by Sir Edward Marsh
  • Georgian Poetry 1916-1917 edited by Sir Edward Marsh
  • Georgian Poetry 1918-1919 edited by Sir Edward Marsh.
  • Admirals All by Henry Newbolt
  • Poems of Wilfred Owen with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
  • Poems by Alan Seeger
  • Irish Melodies by Thomas Moore
  • Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell ("The Commemoration Ode")

Some things that I have trouble remembering are not easily Google-able, so I have a few files of memory ticklers:

• How to build cross-platform shared libraries.
• Chronological lists of European leaders: Kings of France and England, Popes and Holy Roman Emperors.

I have several long-term projects planned, including on-line, annotated editions of Paradise Lost, Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, and Pope's Iliad. Projects in progress are

• Annotations for Byron's Don Juan; the annotations are now complete through 4 Cantos.
• Extensive annotation of Leopold von Ranke's History of England, Chiefly in the 17th Century. I'm currently on Book VI.
• An html edition of Clarendon's History of the Civil Wars. It's complete through Book 6.