Humanities
Thursday Apr 12th, 2012
Seneca in Spring-Time
April, says Eliot famously in the Wasteland, is the cruellest month, “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead ground, mixing/ Memory and desire”. Spring, in this shocking reversal of common tropes, is bad for precisely the reasons we usually think it good: because it involves a rebirth of what had seemed dead. Eliot’s poem, which will itself enact the rebirth or zombie resuscitation of many greatest hits of western literary culture, begins with… read more »
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012
Because I made a blunder, my dear Watson… The Silver Blaze
Happy Birthday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
Monday May 21st, 2012
Ruskin: the autobiographer without an audience?
For whom did did John Ruskin write Praeterita?
Sunday May 20th, 2012
The Dark Lady in ink and paper
On 20 May 1609, Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published in London by Thomas Thorpe.
