“... must have been mothers that wished that things were better, as they ran from known dangers to ...”

“... when he first formulated his own historicist doctrines in the early 1770s. Vico remained virtually unknown outside Italy, despite a handful of isolated references elsewhere, until Jules Michelet made him famous in 1824-5. His influence in England was negligible or non-existent – on this point I am inclined to agree with René Wellek (cited in evidence ...”

“... unacquainted with the function of a public house, a law court or an art gallery ... Roman London, unknown and unseen, mapped and illustrated but not described, can only be interpreted from what is known of Roman society in other Roman towns. All this is possible because, mutatis mutandis, Roman towns, like Roman army camps or even Medieval Cistercian ...”

“... Wilt ‘the Stilt’ Chamberlain, the former American basketball player, has three distinct claims to fame. First, there is the basketball, of which modest art he was, as his nickname suggests, a preternaturally gifted exponent. Then there is his much repeated claim to have slept with over ten thousand women during the course of his playing career, a boast which has generated fascination, disapproval and scepticism in equal measure, and transformed him, if such a thing is possible, into the Georges Simenon of the American locker-room, the object of a whole new kind of attention ...”

“... flip and ruminative. There might have been more quotation from the novels, which are still unknown to most readers, and fewer from the many poems which, while often of biographical interest, contribute little to the appreciation of Butts’s oeuvre or to the body of modern poetry. Within a decade Armed with Madness will assume its rightful place within ...”

“... Pascal, lived upstairs in a flat no one had ever seen, with his wife and children, who, too, were unknown figures. Yet it was said that Mr Pascal sometimes descended the stairs at six o’clock with a rifle in his hand, strode to the centre of the empty quad where during the day they played basketball, and shot at the pigeons decreed to be a nuisance in ...”

“... biographer of T.S. Eliot, who was himself to speak of the ‘dark’ experience, of the ‘rude unknown psychic material’, incorporated in his poem The Waste Land, can be seen to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel – a tradition in which darkness is privileged, in which a paranoid distrust is evident, in ...”

“... exception of the early satyric scenes and battle pieces, his work did not need to sell itself to unknown purchasers. His paintings were commissioned, but also seen by viewers whose concerns were quite different from those of the original patron. Indeed, Poussin’s output was often determined by these divisions in his audience: not only did patrons living in ...”

“... compass Celan: all he is doing is standing in very little light, and waiting to catch something of unknown dimensions. I’m not sure how important Celan is to poetry in English. I think the American ‘deep image’ school, writing poems with a small vocabulary, may think they are doing something comparable. But I don’t understand how people with a ...”

“... Lowland women in love with Highlanders; both are believed to be dead, in fact alive and, unknown to everyone, pregnant with the nation’s future. As Gatty lies stretched on her bed, her husband puts his hand on her breast in the desperate hope that she is still breathing; as Sally lies stretched on the ground, Davey Duff fumbles at her breast in ...”

“... of affection ... The foamy wave their nuptial couch ... they rolled over and over towards the unknown depths of the briny abyss – and came together in a long, chaste, hideous coupling! ... At last I had found someone who resembled me! ... From now on I was no longer alone in life! ... She had the same ideas as I! ... I was facing my first love!‘A ...”

“... of Schizophrenia’. The author could perfectly well maintain that there probably is a definite unknown neuropathology Z that is the cause of prototypical and most other examples of what we now call schizophrenia. But he could also argue that the idea of schizophrenia, expressed in the stereotype, is a social construct that interacts not only with ...”

“... in its balance of sympathy and informed scepticism, now offers a selection of poems well-known and unknown, neatly annotated and presented under new headings designed to remind us of how many more contexts the real Coleridge occupied than his myth ever seemed to. Some of the same poems make an appearance in Morton Paley’s admirable study of Coleridge’s ...”

“... Exiles. He was a heavy drinker who would nowadays be considered an alcoholic; he was penniless and unknown. He had published only a slender book of even more slender verse. Trieste, where he taught English, was an international city, but from his point of view decidedly provincial, far from the metropolitan centres that dominated the literary scene. In the ...”

“... details of her father’s conflicts over land may, as so often in families, have been largely unknown to his children. Her recorded version was a colourful, moving and, on the whole, honest account of what it was like to be an Indian woman in Guatemala during the years of struggle and repression. Yet producing such a book in such a way, and in a great ...”