Ted Hughes – the unnecessary biography
We are fortunate, I think, in knowing as little about William Shakespeare as we do. With no biography to distract us, all we have to think about is the work. … Continue reading
November 25, 2015 · Leave a comment
A Reader’s Diary – 29 January 2014
John Clare wrote three kinds of poem: observations on himself (‘I am – yet what I am none cares or knows’), observations on social change (‘Enclosure like a Bonaparte let … Continue reading
January 29, 2014 · Leave a comment