I came across this in the book I've just been reading: King Arthur in Legend and History by Richard Barber.
Sir Richard Blackmore, Physician in Ordinary to William III, took up the writing of epics as "an innocent amusement to entertain me in such leisure hours as were usually past away before in Conversation and unprofitable telling and hearing of ( Read more... )

I posted this on my other blog at Notes from underground: I can't face Facebook any more! but then I thought it would be more appropriate here ( Read more... )