After spending time thinking about Symonds’s name and family history in my previous post (entitled “What’s in a name?”), I decided to continue along the same theme with this one. Within the Johns Hopkins University Special Collections Library appears a copy of Agamemnon: A Tragedy taken from Aeschylus that was translated by Edward FitzGerald and … Continue reading Deciphering Symonds’s Coat of Arms: A Reflection

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet... William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1907, 2.2.43-44) Though I have heard this line from the Bard many times throughout my years of schooling, I rarely stopped to think critically on the importance of names … Continue reading What’s in a name?