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“... a considerable impression on poets as different as Seamus Heaney, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn and Les Murray, all of whom had grown up with working horses. Its impact today may be different, but its eloquence persists and the need for an environmental reset has grown more acute. Where Rilke’s ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ ends with the memorable words ...”

“... published in 1978, The Wise Wound was praised by reviewers as different as Marina Warner and Les Murray; insightful and often freewheelingly speculative, it ranges from menstruation and witchcraft to capitalist patriarchy and vampirism. It was recognised from the start as revolutionary and taboo-breaking. In the years leading up to the publication ...”

“... examples of the planned itinerary for visitors is François Colsoni’s Guide de Londres pour les Etrangers of 1693, which gave plans for a week’s daily sightseeing. A rash of publications in the 18th century warned about the moral hazards of the city, deploring them while making them seem attractive, in a style which the popular press was to ...”

“... reduction, mate. Tummy tucks. That’s what you win if you win the lottery: cosmetic surgery.’ Les said he liked the early start and the afternoons off. He has worked in Harrow for more than a dozen years, up early every day and out clearing the bins before anybody is awake. He now drives the truck and considers that a significant upgrade. ‘I’m the ...”

“... unturned. It’s obvious from Downey’s record that he, like many, was shot pour encourager les autres. As for ‘cowards’, there is physical exhaustion to consider, as well as post-hoc diagnoses of PTSD and mental illness. Harry Farr withstood two years on the Western Front, much of this time with PTSD, and was shot as the Battle of the Somme ...”

“... better or worse, this union in its modern shape and title was born out of the struggle waged by Les Cannon, Jock Byrne and the later deleted Mark Young against the Communist leadership which had rigged elections in a style which would have done credit to the Kennedys or the Daleys in Chicago. The ETU resistance (it was hardly less) had received no succour ...”

“... island, rising up out of the marshes (marécages) that surrounded it.The Mosquitoes of ArlesJohn Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in France, the standard 19th-century guide, warns that Arles is unhealthy ‘at certain seasons’ because of the marshes and pools in the vicinity. Even today, there are hosts of mosquitoes clear into the month of November, and ...”

“... still blaming him for breathing new life into the already elderly notion of zeitgeist. Yet Oswyn Murray is not alone in making Burckhardt a precursor of the historians of mentality whose broad school has so many disciples, and even, in his methodology, of what is called ‘Post-Modernist’ history. Certainly, it is not difficult to see his shadow looming ...”

“... Particularly vulnerable to these developments ... was the lyric. It is the unique distinction of Les Fleurs du mal that Baudelaire responded to precisely these altered conditions with a book of poems. It is the best example of heroic conduct to be found in his life. But this on its own will not quite do as diagnosis. As with the arcades and collective ...”

“... them. Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan, started the ‘heiress corps’ with her partner, Anne Murray Dike. For many, it was liberating. Women referred to one another by their surnames, as if they were soldiers or schoolboys, or gave each other boyish nicknames – Tommy, Kit. They were no longer criticised for wearing androgynous clothes; indeed, Vita ...”

“... he met Chagall, Brancusi, Miró and Braque, who was charmed by the Edes’ London home: ‘Tous les conforts, pas de téléphone.’ In England his friends included Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry Moore and Christopher Wood. He never met the self-taught Cornish painter Alfred Wallis but supported him and bought his work. It was at the Edes’ dinner table ...”

“... desire. Bliss was it in that dawn to be reading Tel Quel and watching the signs that led up to les événements of May ’68. Sollers was among the chief theorists of that ‘moment’, along with Barthes and Derrida. It is not hard to see the connection between these essays and a text like Barthes’s S/Z, where the scientistic dream of a structuralist ...”

“... The Government went to court and asked for injunctions. The judge chosen to try the case, Murray Gurfein, had been a military intelligence officer during the war – a fact that did not encourage the Times’s lawyers. He began with expressions of concern for the national security. But when he asked the official witnesses to point to particular ...”

“... as all his brothers. At first, Abe, the eldest, decided to be a dentist and changed his surname to Murray so that he wouldn’t appear to be a Jewish dentist, but he found he was too squeamish about working inside people’s mouths and went the same way as his brothers. All seven of them must have inferred from their father’s career that it didn’t pay to ...”