Azara
Thoughts on the Edited Guide
I took a couple of years' break from submitting entries to PR, though I was commenting on and off during that time. Surveying my entries after that gap, I've crystallised some of my feelings about the Edited Guide and PR:
The entries I'm least impressed by are the ones you could call 'mainstream':
Verdi, the Flowers of the Burren, Bram Stoker. I think h2g2 is at its best (compared to Wikipedia) when we have entries that are either quirky and unusual, or that make lots of unexpected cross-connections. I think that Castrati, Sir Boyle Roche, and Sheela-na-Gigs are eyecatching becuase the subjects are a bit off-beat, while Amber, the Ash Tree, the Seven Deadly Sins and the Monument all make interesting or unexpected cross-connections.
So, now that I'm back writing, I intend to concentrate on the quirky or cross-connecting style of entry: I hope the ones I have in PR now (go and look!) will live up to expectations!
Edited Entries (23)
Opera
- Giuseppe Verdi
- The French Opera Tradition
- A History of Opera Illustrated
- Castrati in Opera Illustrated
- The Operatic Way of Death
- The Layout of a Traditional Opera House Illustrated
Ireland and Irish People
- Sheela-na-Gigs Illustrated
- The Fastnet Rock, County Cork, Ireland
- The Book of Kells
- The Strange Sayings of Sir Boyle Roche
- Lord Dunsany - Author
- The Flowers of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland
- Bram Stoker - Author
Nature
Miscellaneous
- Roger Bacon and the Brazen Head
- The Wines of Tuscany, Italy
- The Seven Deadly Sins Illustrated
- The Monument to the Great Fire of London Illustrated with a film clip!
- The Hebrew Manuscripts of the Cairo Genizeh
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