# Dispatches from Biblioll College We are a group of lifelong library-learners who, like Hardy's Jude, wish they'd studied at Oxford, but couldn't. Ergo, we've learned to make do with piles of books. We blog about books, culture, Oxford, and the quest for knowledge, by hook or crook. Page: Feed: --- ## [Classical Music History Post 08: Sing a Merry Madrigal](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/classical-music-history-post-08-sing) _2026-08-16 · the little seamstress_ Classical Music History Series—Byrd, Morley, and Wilbye in England ## [The Greek Tragedies: Diary of an Obsession (Part One)](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-greek-tragedies-diary-of-an-obsession) _2026-08-11 · Boze_ A Journey into the Heart of Madness ## [Twelve Books to Read if You Like Greek & Roman Mythology](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/twelve-books-to-read-if-you-like) _2026-08-10 · Boze_ Exploring the Literary Roots of Western Civilisation ## [Dispatches from Dickens No. 13: Dickens from January-June, 1841](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-dickens-no-13-dickens) _2026-08-09 · the little seamstress_ Or, Dickens’s Letters as he completes The Old Curiosity Shop and FINALLY Begins Barnaby Rudge ## [Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany No. 17](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-colleges-monthly-miscellany-c23) _2026-08-02 · Biblioll College_ Notes and highlights from July 2026 - and Happy Birthday, Herman Melville! ## [God Bless Billy Budd](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/god-bless-billy-budd) _2026-07-31 · the little seamstress_ Reflections on Melville's nearly-lost masterpiece ## [The Knight, Death, and the Devil, up close and personal](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-knight-death-and-the-devil-up) _2026-07-30 · Dana Rail_ The privilege of experiencing a great work of art at close range. ## [My Ten Favorite Books of the First Half of 2026](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/my-ten-favorite-books-of-the-first) _2026-07-29 · Boze_ Behold! Another Stellar Year of Reading Is Afoot ## [What We Lose When We Lose Literacy](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/what-we-lose-when-we-lose-literacy) _2026-07-14 · Boze_ The Road to Civilisational Ruin ## [The Eleven Best Translations of The Divine Comedy in English (and One to Avoid)](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-eleven-best-translations-of-the) _2026-07-08 · Boze_ A Celebration of Literature's Greatest Poem ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nGKs1ck244yC) _2026-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [Biblioll College’s Monthly Miscellany No. 16](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-colleges-monthly-miscellany-a83) _2026-07-06 · the little seamstress_ Notes and highlights from June 2026 ## [Scotus, “the rarest-veined unraveller”](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/scotus-the-rarest-veined-unraveller) _2026-07-04 · Daniel Murphy_ An Intriguing Journey with Gerard Manley Hopkins ## [Into the Wardrobe: The Folk- and Fairy-Tale Collections You Must Read](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/into-the-wardrobe-the-folk-and-fairy) _2026-07-02 · Boze_ "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy-tales again." ## [My Fifteen Favorite Audiobook Narrators](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/my-fifteen-favorite-audiobook-narrators) _2026-06-28 · the little seamstress_ A Celebration of Audiobooks ## [The Anglo-Saxon Saint Who Fled to the Fens to Preserve Her Chastity](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-anglo-saxon-saint-who-fled-to) _2026-06-24 · Boze_ Remembering St Etheldreda on Her Feast Day ## [The Iconic Victorian Poem That Haunted Me as a Child](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-iconic-victorian-poem-that-haunted) _2026-06-22 · Boze_ "We are no other than a moving-row / Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go" ## [A Syllabus for my 2026 Oxford Project](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-syllabus-for-my-2026-oxford-project) _2026-06-14 · Dana Rail_ Pulling on the threads that connect such Oxford luminaries as Newman, Ruskin, Morris, and Tolkien. ## [The Art of the Divine Comedy, Our Most Visual Poem](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-art-of-the-divine-comedy-our) _2026-06-05 · Boze_ Seven Hundred Years of Dante in Painting & Manuscript ## [Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany No. 15](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/biblioll-colleges-monthly-miscellany-b94) _2026-06-03 · Biblioll College_ Notes and highlights from May 2026 ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yPhvm5JJfsxA) _2026-06-03 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [In Praise of Malcolm Guite's Galahad & the Grail](https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-malcolm-guites-galahad) _2026-06-02 · Boze_ My Latest Essay for Plough