


Please nominate some exemplary Q&A from the second quarter (Apr/May/Jun) of 2019.

  • Multiple nominated posts per answer here is fine.

I'm sure I will find more Questions and Answers that I want to add, but I thought I would get the ball rolling with a shout-out for @GarethRees' answer to What does Forster mean by “Suspicion in the Oriental”?

This is a solidly useful answer which not only responds to the question as posed, but also ably demonstrates the importance of the context of quotations and how extracts can often only be fully understood as part of the wider work. A lesson that I've actually taken to heart in an answer I wrote today.

A great lesson and a solid answer.

  • Chenmunka's answer isn't from the 2nd quarter of 2019 ... you could go and nominate that one here if you think it's one of the best from the site's first months. – Rand al'Thor Jul 22 '19 at 14:24
  • Oh, I thought it came up using the query someone provided, I must have lost track of clicking away from it. I’ll just delete, mainly I was looking to add variety to nominations. – Spagirl Jul 22 '19 at 15:22

I was blown away by the responses to my question Was T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" plagiarised? Both the answers from Gareth Rees and Christophe Strobbe, as well as the deleted one from fundagain, are good reads with detailed arguments. I'm especially impressed by Gareth's answer (which I accepted), with its incredibly comprehensive analysis of various critics who claimed plagiarism as well as a detailed discussion of how and why such claims arise when there's no real evidence for them.


When looking for the best answers from the second quarter, I find it hard to find one that is not by Gareth Rees. Here's another example: Where and how did James Joyce condemn Hamlet as a failure?, in which Gareth corrects a scholar quoted on Wikipedia. It involves a fair amount of citation chasing.

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