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Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog	17.5.2012

25 August 2005

Mountweazels

es*qui*val*i*ence |es| >n. the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities; the shirking of duties: after three subordinates attested to his esquivalience, Lieutenant Claiborne was dismissed.
*an unwillingness to work, esp. as part of a group effort: Bovich was chided by teammates for her esquivalience. *lack of interest or motivation: a teenager's esquivalience is not necessarily symptomatic of depression.
-DERIVATIVES es*qui*val*i*ent adj.; es*qui*val*i*ently adv.
-ORIGIN late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, "dodge, slink away."

Excellent New Yorker short exposes the practice by Encylopedias and Dictionaries of planting fake entries in their publications to track copycats and protect their copyright. Lillian Mountweazel? Never existed. Esquivalience? Not a real word.

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1563. Roberts, Michael, and Anne Ridler, eds. The Faber Book of Modern Verse, rev. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1951.

The supplement to the new edition adds the work of Kathleen Raine, W.R. Rodgers, F.T. Prince, Henry Reed, W.S. Graham, and others who have emerged during and since the Second World War.

1st lesson:

Reed, Henry (1914-1986). Born: Birmingham, England, 22 February 1914; died: London, 8 December 1986.

Education: MA, University of Birmingham, 1936. Served: RAOC, 1941-42; Foreign Office, GC&CS, 1942-1945. Freelance writer: BBC Features Department, 1945-1980.

Author of: A Map of Verona: Poems (1946)
The Novel Since 1939 (1946)
Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (1947)
Lessons of the War (1970)
Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio (1971)
The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio (1971)
Collected Poems (1991, 2007)
The Auction Sale (2006)