Alan Brownjohn most recent volume of poetry, A Night in the Gazebo, was published in 1980.
Something Audenesque for a conclusion? In dignified, indented, limestone lines? But in Wystan’s geology hills were permanent, Whereas human geography constantly changes, That being its only constancy. We reach plateaux in life When friends seem likely always to be there, Changeless features in the landscape. And then –
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Of the extraordinary life and activities of Shabbetai Tzevi, or Sabbatai Zebi (1626-76), sage, scholar, mystic, apostate and self-proclaimed Messiah, an important figure in the history of...
Donald Davie has proposed that Eliot’s Quartets are in some sense a work of self-parody, with ‘The Dry Salvages’ in structure and style parodistic of the quartets that preceded...
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