Leonard Cottrell: 19372016

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Web Name: Leonard Cottrell: 19372016

WebSite: http://www.planck.com

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Planck.com was Leonard's web site, where he put physics- and poetry- relatedmaterial up for his friends and the general public. He named it afterMax Planck, the physicist, whom he admired. The web site has been online inone form or another since 1996 at times being served over a 33.6kbpsSLIP dialup connection. It is now being maintained, with its originalcontents, by his son, as a memorial for him.What his obituary might have been ifthere had been oneA eulogy written by his son12345of a thread memorializing Leonard on physicsforums.com1of a thread memorializing Leonard on sciencechatforum.comTumble Rhymes, spooneristicallyrhymed couplets by my friends and myself.Rhymed Translations: theRestrung Bow rhymed verse translation from the earliest recorded sources inEurope (c. 1100) up to Rilke. Some of these have already been published or willbe submitted for publication at the Monadnock Review, which posts a fairamount of rhymed verse translation.Rilke Rhymed, mostly from the NewPoems series 1907 and 1908.Some of my translations from Rilke and some Medieval German poets, as wellas from Italian Renaissance poets Dante, Donzella, Guido, Michelangeloand others are published in the Review.Guilhem de Peitieu, rhymedtranslations from the earliest known troubadour, Guilhem (1071-1127) VII Countof Poitiers, IX Duke of Aquitaine, and Eleanor of Aquitaine's grandfather,whose songs may seem in obstreperous bad taste from today's perspective but arestill interesting.Selected Cecco formal offensescommitted by Cecco Angiolieri, 13th Century master of the scurriloussonnet.The Grab Bag of Verses,random snatches of memorable and quotable verse, recollected by myself andothers. Tumble Rhymes, Rhymed Translations: the Restrung Bow, Selected Cecco,Rilke Rhymed, and The Grab Bag of Verses are titles 1999,2001,2002 Leonard Cottrell As a convenience I have also posted the French text of P-J Toulet'sContrerimes, which were published in 1921,the year after the poet's death.*Rhymenet Index Page(the contents as of 2016 of http://www.rhymenet.com/ , another web site that Leonardowned)Rhymed Translations: theRestrung Bow a sampling of European lyric poetry mostly 1100-1900 in rhymedmetrical translationGuilhem, the first troubadour Fivesongs by Guilhem de Peitieu (1071-1126) the earliest known rhyming poet in aEuropean languageRhymed Rilke Twenty or so lyrics,mostly from the New Poems series 1907 and 1908, in rhymed metrical translationshown in tandem with the original GermanAnti-metric Fables Twenty or sonature fables involving humans and animals: the god Apollo, the parrot, GeorgeWashington, and the Taoist sage Laotzu. Also some giants that Apollo hired tobuild the universe. The fables make literary use of natural law. Apologies forthe fact that they don't rhyme but maybe that's OK in this case.OLD TABLE OF CONTENTS OF RHYMENETWork on Rhymenet began Nov. 15, 2001.

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