Topic: “English Literature”
Reflections June 2021
The right angle
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On Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.
Reconsiderations June 2021
The poet as memoirist
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On W. B. Yeats’s Autobiographies.
Verse chronicle June 2021
History lessons
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A review of “The Historians,” by Eavan Boland, “American Melancholy,” by Joyce Carol Oates, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere,” by Kim Addonizio, “The Caiplie Caves,” by Karen Solie, “Beethoven Variations,” by Ruth Padel & “The Hill We Climb,” by Amanda Gorman.
Apr 30, 2021
Plod & the poetry of prose
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On the critical tradition of William Hazlitt.
Fiction chronicle May 2021
Afterwards
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On “The Invisible Land,” by Hubert Mingarelli, “Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart: A Novel,” by Irmgard Keun, “Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing,” by Guido Morselli & “Mr Cadmus,” by Peter Ackroyd.
Features March 2021
The morality of the fat Owl
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On Frank Richards’s Billy Bunter series.
Features March 2021
Devout doubters
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On Matthew Arnold & Arthur Hugh Clough.
Reflections March 2021
The middle ground of fiction
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On some midcentury bestsellers.
Theater March 2021
The most grateful Englishman
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On a new biography of the playwright Tom Stoppard.