Summary:
Friday’s Poem: “The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered” by Clive James from Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of historian and statesman George Bancroft, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (1800). George Bancroft lived to be 90 years old, so he saw most of the 19th century. He taught Greek at Harvard. Then President Polk appointed him Secretary of the Navy, and during his tenure, Bancroft established the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was…
