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Colin Burrow: Grimm Tales, 20 March 2025
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
by Ann Schmiesing.
Yale, 336 pp., £25, January,978 0 300 22175 6 Show More
by Ann Schmiesing.
Yale, 336 pp., £25, January,
“... The hyper-courtly Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’ Wyatt goes on to relate the song, which is pretty much the story of the town mouse and the country mouse as told by Horace in his Satires with some added shivers of late Henrician courtly horror ... ”