“... too. Only a few years into their marriage, the duchess became involved with a man called Steve Wyatt, who had ‘extensive commercial interests in the Middle East’. ‘His stepfather was a heavy purchaser of Iraqi crude oil,’ Lownie writes, and was ‘at the time negotiating for Iraqi investment in his own US-based refineries. To help ...”

“... anthologies of English poetry knows that the modern tradition – beginning with Chaucer and Wyatt, and resubscribed by Pound and Eliot – was forged almost entirely from translation of one sort or another; nearly every form we have is a borrowed form. One may or may not know that Milton translated his poems into Latin and back again, or that the first ...”

“... The hyper-courtly​ Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’ Wyatt goes on to relate the song, which is pretty much the story of the town mouse and the country mouse as told by Horace in his Satires with some added shivers of late Henrician courtly horror ...”

“... from literary history: Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, John Kendrick Bangs, Edith Wyatt, Mary R. Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown and Henry Van Dyke (‘the friend of the family’). Apart from arranging for the girl to have met her fiancé at college, so that the gentleman in question remains a promising mystery to her relatives, Howells did ...”

“... his successful campaign to take her job. In 2004, when his lies about his affair with Petronella Wyatt and her subsequent abortion were exposed, he refused Michael Howard’s order that he resign as a shadow minister. His calculation was that only a sacking would make it possible for him to play the injured party in public.His resignation speech as prime ...”

“... all but perspectives prepared in advance of building and commissioned by architects (respectively Wyatt and Nash). If these are admissible, so surely are those superb paintings of Soane’s country houses by J.M. Gandy, and the architects’ perspectives of country houses produced during the following century. The book lacks completeness because Mr Harris ...”

“... of tyranny, Tacitus and Suetonius. Echoes from them, and from Seneca, recur in Tudor writers. Wyatt uses as one of his refrains circa regna tonat – ‘thunder lours around courts’ – from Seneca’s Phaedra. And issues of a heavy and dangerous power bring menace to his love poems: the diamond-collared and hunted deer says ‘Caesar’s I am,’ and ...”

“... decorum of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the Canadian Pacific Railroad and the Mounties. We had no Wyatt Earp, nor Jesse James: just the frozen endurance of the homesteaders, the struggle against the permafrost, the wind and the banks. It is not a mythic story, and when I once taught Canadian history, I had a hard time telling it. The great-grandsons and ...”

“... before the Ayatollah calls closing time to try to get the Shah to pull himself together. Woodrow Wyatt suggests that ‘bobbies could provide advice on crowd control in Tehran.’ Lord Longford thinks the way to avoid the regime’s ‘bad press’ is to change the country’s name back to Persia. Radji has only himself to blame if he wasted his time ...”

“... far behind? Talk of intellectuals who serve governments brings me quite naturally to Sir Woodrow Wyatt, who has been serving this government pretty consistently in the columns of Sunday newspapers over the last six years. The reviews of Sir Woodrow’s latest book, Confessions of an Optimist,* have been suitably dreadful, though he did find quite a good one ...”

“... useful things in the Blakeley collection include Abimbola on ifa, a Yoruba system of divination; Wyatt McGaffey on the Kimbanguist independency in what was once the Belgian Congo and is now Zaire, with its capacity to reveal what he loyally calls ‘the austere dignities of the Protestant faith’ (my Ayrshire great-aunts would have nodded their ...”

“... collaged heads and moustaches and stick-up collars and broad-cloth shoulders of the Earp brothers: Wyatt, James, Virgil, Morgan and Warren. Turning my head a little, I would find myself in Red Rock Country, surveying from the top of the world “the crimsons and blood reds and ochres of Sedona’s sandstone spires”.’ She plans a board-game based on this ...”

“... more comic than they are here. Love, etc returns frequently to the cool rationalities of Mme Wyatt, Gillian’s French mother, to the sassy, bullshit-detecting judgments of the American, Terri, and to the aggrieved bewilderment of Ellie, Stuart’s English date. By turns impassioned, impatient, bored, exasperated and indignant, this secondary trio alert ...”

“... early assessment that ‘as an erotic poet, Eliot’s economy of means is equalled only by Wyatt.’ I hope he has not abandoned the far-reaching perception that travesty ‘is The Waste Land’s preferred modus operandi’. He seems to have allowed his early emphasis on Eliot’s graduate studies in Indian philosophy to recede. But he holds more ...”

“... makes me wish I were writing about the work of Fulke Greville or Sir Walter Ralegh or Sir Thomas Wyatt. I studied English and History. In English we were told almost immediately by Seamus Deane that we must bring nothing of ourselves, of our personal experience to a poem when we read. A poem was a verbal structure, and our job was to define the nature of its ...”