TMO Tags: shakespeare
Writers and the Credit Crunch – Margaret Atwood and Tim Parks
Sunday, October 5th, 2008I very rarely have the cause or inclination to browse to the Financial Times, but was glad to have done so today. The immediate reasoning was to check for news on the troubled bank of which I am, unfortunately, an account holder. No particular joy there, but instead I stumbled upon an extract from Margaret [...]
Michael Longley: Entwining Strands of Love, Nature, War & Death.
Monday, May 1st, 2006“Longley hasn’t advertised himself as a Muse-poet, but that is what he is, a love poet, and a nature poet, a celebrant of the female principle; and like Graves he is also a war poet, of the two world wars in which his father fought, and of the war of nerves in Northern Ireland, where [...]
Break, Blow, Burn – Camille Paglia discusses poetry
Saturday, October 1st, 2005The publication of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson in 1990 announced the arrival of a new intellectual voice. That work – with its startlingly immodest ambition to “demonstrate the unity and continuity of western culture” – embodied what has come to be seen as Paglia’s hallmark style: deep [...]
