Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune,
whose words to jarre,
nor his reason in frame,
who sentence is preposterous.
Ben Jonson, Discoveries, 1641
The Underground Grammarian is a small newsletter that was published
by Richard Mitchell from around 1977 until 1991. Richard Mitchell has
also published a couple of books which are compilations of some of the
more interesting articles plus original writings.
I typed in a few issues in the early '90s, and put them on the web a
few years later. Mark Alexander (mark_alex@earthlink.net) has gone
wild and gotten all of Mitchell's books on-line and is now moving to
scanning in all of the Underground Grammarian issues. Definitely check
out his web page at http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/.
Another web page of interest is
Robert Kern Curtis'
collection of six Underground Grammarian essays.
Answering Kautski is a good starting point to give you a feel for
the subject matter and the style.
Books
Richard Mitchell has published four books, two of them are compilations
of essays written for Underground Grammarian over the years.
Less Than Words Can Say and Gift of Fire are new
writings in a full book form. As far as I know, all four are all out of
print. Thanks to Craig Treptow (Athens110@mcn.net), here is a complete
list with publisher & ISBN information:
- Less than Words Can Say, ISBN 0-316-57506-2,
Little Brown & Co., 1979
- The Graves of Academe, ISBN 0-316-57508-9,
Little Brown & Co., 1981
- The Leaning Tower of Babel, ISBN 0-316-57509-7,
Little Brown & Co., 1984
- The Gift of Fire, ISBN 0-671-64327-4,
Simon and Schuster, Inc./Fireside Books, 1987
ISBN 0-671-63938-2 (paperback)
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