Immortal diamond
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet I encountered on my parents’ shelves as a child. A…
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet I encountered on my parents’ shelves as a child. A…
Adam Phillips says somewhere, perhaps in one of his intriguing essays, perhaps in an interview with the…
From The Journals of Kierkegaard, 1834-54: And this is the simple truth: that to live is…
I admire Harold Bloom and his scorn for the New Schools of Resentment. I recognise my…
From Seamus Heaney “Here is the great paradox of poetry and of the imaginative arts in…
This morning I pulled down from my bookshelf a cardboard box that contains a hundred or…
The most insightful and curious article I have read in the weekend papers is by Paul…
Today I watched live the speech made by Donald Trump to accept the Republican nomination for…
From Niccolo Machiavelli’s letter to the magnificent Lorenzo de Medici in presenting his The Prince: Nor…
Once a week on a Tuesday I will post a list, with Borges as more of…