Leonard Cottrell
1937–2016

Planck.com was Leonard's web site, where he put physics- and poetry- related material up for his friends and the general public. He named it after Max Planck, the physicist, whom he admired. The web site has been online in one form or another since 1996—at times being served over a 33.6kbps SLIP dialup connection. It is now being maintained, with its original contents, by his son, as a memorial for him.

• What his obituary might have been if there had been one
• A eulogy written by his son
• Page 1 2 3 4 5 of a thread memorializing Leonard on physicsforums.com
• Page 1 of a thread memorializing Leonard on sciencechatforum.com

Photo © Bill Hocker

Rhymed Verse and Nature Fables
(the site as of 2016, otherwise unchanged)

• Tumble Rhymes, spooneristically rhymed couplets by my friends and myself.
  
  
• Rhymed Translations: the Restrung Bow rhymed verse translation from the earliest recorded sources in Europe (c. 1100) up to Rilke. Some of these have already been published or will be submitted for publication at the Monadnock Review, which posts a fair amount of rhymed verse translation.
  
  
• Rilke Rhymed, mostly from the New Poems series 1907 and 1908.
  
  
• Some of my translations from Rilke and some Medieval German poets, as well as from Italian Renaissance poets — Dante, Donzella, Guido, Michelangelo and others — are published in the Review.
  
  
• Guilhem de Peitieu, rhymed translations from the earliest known troubadour, Guilhem (1071-1127) VII Count of Poitiers, IX Duke of Aquitaine, and Eleanor of Aquitaine's grandfather, whose songs may seem in obstreperous bad taste from today's perspective but are still interesting.
  
  
• Selected Cecco—formal offenses committed by Cecco Angiolieri, 13th Century master of the scurrilous sonnet.
  
  
• The Grab Bag of Verses, random snatches of memorable and quotable verse, recollected by myself and others.
  
  

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's Contrerimes, which were published in 1921, the year after the poet's death.

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Rhymenet Index Page
(the contents as of 2016 of <http://www.rhymenet.com/>, another web site that Leonard owned)

Rhymed Translations: the Restrung Bow a sampling of European lyric poetry mostly 1100-1900 in rhymed metrical translation

Guilhem, the first troubadour Five songs by Guilhem de Peitieu (1071-1126) the earliest known rhyming poet in a European language

Rhymed Rilke Twenty or so lyrics, mostly from the New Poems series 1907 and 1908, in rhymed metrical translation shown in tandem with the original German

Anti-metric Fables Twenty or so nature fables involving humans and animals: the god Apollo, the parrot, George Washington, and the Taoist sage Laotzu. Also some giants that Apollo hired to build the universe. The fables make literary use of natural law. Apologies for the fact that they don't rhyme but maybe that's OK in this case.

OLD TABLE OF CONTENTS OF RHYMENET

Work on Rhymenet began Nov. 15, 2001.