“... the Nashville Agrarians – Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate and Donald Davidson, to name the most prominent. Turning to more recent times, Genovese relies on the anti-modernist commentaries of Richard Weaver, a Southern sociologist in Chicago, and Melvin Bradford, a literary critic in Dallas, who both firmly believed in a morally ...”

“... see so little of Mr Blake now,’ his wife once complained: ‘He is always in Paradise’), and James Pierrepont Greaves (damned by Carlyle as a ‘blockhead’ and an ‘imbecile’), preferred to leave the world rather than to understand or change it, renouncing (inter alia) religion, property, profit or prostitutes, tobacco, alcohol or flesh (sometimes ...”

“... before, drinking with a right-wing vlogger he had met online. The former prime-time comedian Jim Davidson was at the same bar. ‘Reform does the best parties,’ Lee told me. He used to vote Conservative but ‘never Ukip’. So why Reform? ‘Immigration. It’s out of control.’ He was heading to his first fringe event of the day, on ‘securing the ...”

“... expression, were prerequisites of writing serious poems a century later. Eliot’s praise of John Davidson’s ‘Thirty Bob a Week’ as ‘the only poem in which Davidson freed himself completely from the poetic diction of English verse of his time’, so that ‘the poem is to me a great poem for ever’ may seem ...”

“... and science has been shared by people as far apart as Russell and Bergson, Whitehead and Husserl, James and Nietzsche, Carnap and Cassirer. Until Kripke came along, almost the only exceptions to this consensus were the Catholics and the Marxists. Between the two Vatican Councils, neo-Thomists tried to explain that the ‘naive’ Aristotelian view was the ...”

“... realism about perception that he shares with such of his ‘philosophical heroes’ as Dewey, James (W.; certainly not H.), Peirce, J.L. Austin, John McDowell, Husserl (with reservations) and, of course, Wittgenstein. Disappointingly, however, neither Putnam nor anybody else in his direct realist pantheon is prepared actually to offer an account of how ...”

“... At the beginning of 2017, Scotland had three female party leaders: Sturgeon, the Conservative Ruth Davidson and Labour’s Kezia Dugdale. Sturgeon and Dugdale backed each other on initiatives such as Dugdale’s 50:50 campaign for equal representation in Parliament and sex/gender quotas on public boards. Sturgeon appointed a female chief of staff, Liz ...”

“... of name and blood’. The same could not be said of the Cato Street plotters. William Davidson was a Black cabinet-maker of considerable eloquence (as his speech from the dock showed), who had been born in Jamaica and run away to sea, and later once repaired furniture for Lord Harrowby. Four of the others were ex-soldiers who were more or less ...”

“... is of New York’. Whitman’s desire to embody the city is set against the closed world of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Conrad shows O’Henry and Stephen Crane plucking characters from the crowd; Jacob Riis using photography to document the inhumanities of slum tenements, Stieglitz using it to make skyscrapers monumental; Oldenburg embracing the city by ...”

“... salvation, I mean.’ In the crowd was a young man from an Irish family in the Cowgate called James Connolly. In Dublin many years later, not long before the 1916 Easter Rising and his own execution, Connolly would write: ‘Without the Shedding of Blood, there is no Redemption.’Forster​ reminds her readers that ‘before it became fully canonised by ...”

“... are the mark of genius and of progress. If we follow up this Kuhnian point by thinking, with Davidson, of the literal-metaphorical distinction as the distinction between old language and new language rather than in terms of a distinction between words which latch onto the world and those which do not, the paradox vanishes. If, with ...”

“... and restored saloons. Giant silver motorcycles stood in darkened storefront windows. Harley Davidson holds a huge rally nearby every summer, flooding the place with half a million bikers. A big ad for the company hung over the far end of town, proclaiming ‘Our Roads. Our Rules. Let’s Ride.’I got a room in a rickety motel and walked down Main ...”

“... in the literary world. When she encountered a group of writers in Athens in 1962, the poet James Merrill and the British novelists Robert Liddell, Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Pym, she fled town as soon as she could, muttering that she wasn’t made for this kind of thing. She seems to have cut a formidable figure. ‘Mary Renault arrived all in gold ...”

“... Glaswegian socialism into a laboratory of protest and policy, publishing the revolutionaries James Connolly and John Maclean as well as those, like Johnston himself and John Wheatley, who hoped socialism could come through parliamentary representation. Helen Crawfurd, Mary Barbour, Mary Laird and Agnes Dollan of the Glasgow Women’s Housing Association ...”

“... the travelling roadshow organised by Shaftesbury and Buckingham around the King’s bastard son, James, Duke of Monmouth, was playing to rapturous crowds. Activists among the country gentry, incensed by the long prorogation of Parliament in 1675, and by then convinced that Charles II would never accept Parliament as a partner in government, had for some ...”