Stephen Guy-Bray@SGUYBRAY

Professor specializing in Renaissance poetry, queer theory, & poetics. Opinions solely mine & always correct. Cis man, trans ally. 🏳️‍🌈

blogs.ubc.ca/sguybray
Joined October 2014
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My book is now published and available: anthempress.com/line-endings… It's not cheap so I'll understand if you only buy two copies each. Or get your library to order it, I don't know. In many ways I feel that I wrote this book on Twitter so I'm pleased it's here. #Praxis #Party

Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry | Anthem Press

This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our…

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This unflattering selfie commemorates my birthday, which is today.
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This is extremely bad and it could have been avoided if everyone had to read "The Heresy of Paraphrase." #CleanthBrooksWasRight
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I just saw this in the kindle store and now you all have to suffer along with me
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Teaching "Lycidas" today. (Edward King's death =😃)
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6'4" / 193cm
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forgot a face reveal, let’s height reveal. You first
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I dreamt that I went to a restaurant and they gave me a menu but it wasn't called a menu it was called a "Flavourscape" and I woke up annoyed
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Because I was gay and because I was smart, but mainly because I was gay.
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Jul 28
why were you bullied?
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Me at 19. Enjoying the sun on Fire Island.
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Jun 21
Me at 19 with hair, a copy of the Very Hungry Caterpillar and a Shorter OED,as was the fashion at the time
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In the last fourteen days of my BA I wrote seven papers.
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I was told by a 22yr old today that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without AI.
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The great thing is that there is no reason to read either of them ever again.
LBark@franzsherbert
Apr 26
Incredibly on brand for both of them (CS Lewis saying something kind of annoying, and Harold Bloom refusing to speak to someone because they don't think Shakespeare invented human consciousness)
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absolutely fucking not
Kerch 🍉@matt_kercher
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Get fucked Carney. I will not die for Israel.
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Casa de los Azulejos, Mexico City. #TilesOnTuesday
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I've bought three shirts from Adam and they're all wonderful. You should order some. You'd like them too.
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For Valentine's Day, you may have this piece of graffiti I saw on the Berlin Wall in 1990: Doris ist das Eichhörnchen, das auf den Zweigen meines Herzens tanzt. Doris is the squirrel who dances on the branches of my heart.
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19th-Century specialists! Please consider doing a book for this new series.
Omar F. Miranda@OmarFMiranda
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A "new" book series for these trying times. Please circulate widely and send us your proposals. @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyPub
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oh no I've just realized I have to reread Aristotle's Poetics why is this happening to me
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Congratulations to the AHA for voting to condemn the scholasticide in Gaza. I hope the MLA, my professional organization, will do the same, but they're still refusing to permit a vote on the resolution. It's shameful.
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Jingle Bells is one of the worst songs ever. A good version of it cannot exi youtube.com/watch?v=et8SegU1…
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I had so many great essays in my Paradise Lost course. Perhaps my favourite sentence (quoted with permission) is this: "The creative power of human language is to create language." It's just perfect.
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Yesterday I was teaching the really bizarre ending of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" & I told the students that the important question is whether you die in real life if you die in the poem. #pedagogy
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Sending so much neighbourly love to my dear friends in the US today. 💙
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