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“... his back on it, he buried it deeper, he buried it from me. I found the phrase in the poetry of Matthew Arnold, which I loved at this stage, and which was one of the few tastes I had that bound me to the ‘official’ culture of the school, and two things made the discovery more poignant. One was that Arnold’s ...”

“... of the dishonest Jew’. But at the same time she cites Fitzgerald’s original, Arnold Rothstein, who was both Jewish and dishonest and was believed to have fixed the 1919 World Series (as Wolfshiem is said to have done). Where Wolfshiem is secretive Rothstein was the highly visible head of New York’s ‘Jewish mob’, subject of stories ...”

“... professes an ‘amazement at normality’. Ordinary things can come in many shapes and sizes: when Arnold Bennett shows ‘how important the small and the ordinary are to us’ he is engaged in a slightly different business from Seamus Heaney, whose ‘subject matter was ordinary’, but they might both claim a kind of realism which is the fulfilment of an ...”

“... line with Blake and several other Romantics at the far end, going through some aspects of Arnold and Ruskin, to Pater, Yeats and Lawrence, Graves, elements of Eliot and Woolf, and down to Leavis, Dylan Thomas and then, coming towards the nearer end of the line, the dark, odd and uncouth figure of Ted Hughes. In the superb doorstop of his Collected ...”

“... the wanting to learn German. In ‘Landscape of Childhood’, she remembers her mother reading Matthew Arnold’s ‘Forsaken Merman’ aloud: ‘I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. A spark flew off Arnold and shook me like a ...”

“... were to look at a stopwatch while listening to a motet by Thomas Tallis, or an aria from the St Matthew Passion or Don Giovanni, a movement from a Beethoven or Webern string quartet, or a Chopin mazurka or a Schubert or Schumann song.Where in much classical music, the exposition of material (the presentation of musical data to the listener’s ear) stands ...”

“... art, somewhat comically, to artistically unschooled violon d’Ingres types like D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Schoenberg, Winston Churchill and Prince Charles – talented amateur painters, possibly, but not exactly what you would call marginal or psychically alienated figures. Euphemistic, in turn, because once again the sheer intransigence of outsider art ...”

“... usefully understood in relation to a letter to Felice written four years earlier, after reading Arnold Zweig’s play Ritual Murder in Hungary (1916). The play enacts a drama from 1897 based on the blood libel against the Jews. Jews in a Hungarian village are accused of using a butcher’s knife to kill Christians and then using their blood to make ...”

“... together and are buried together.’ Nura had her books with her for her exams. Her chemistry, her Matthew Arnold, all of it going with her, as ‘the moon lies fair/Upon the straits’.Many of the Muslim women I spoke to weren’t keen on retribution. Most of them had no interest in apportioning blame or fighting over compensation. ‘It is all in the ...”