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“... later Yeats – the style, not the ideas. These were some of the ingredients: the recipe remains unknown. What we do know is that, some time in 1927 to 1928, Auden suddenly discovered Audenesque. His privately-printed Poems (1928), reprinted here as juvenilia, was not altogether free of Eliotic affectations, nor of other echoes, but it was in essence ...”

“... to ‘the scene of gay men’s bonding . . . which at the experiential level was almost totally unknown to me’. In her next book, Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick wrote more directly about gay male writers, self-fashioning and performance. She took part in Aids protest demonstrations, and ‘came out’ in a series of ...”

“... the text of the 1681 collection and there are no other witnesses except a Bodleian manuscript of unknown provenance which offers some variant readings. But somehow they must be given a decent quantity of apparatus and comment, and the results, more often dependent on critical ingenuity than on historical fact, are not always admirable. Partly because they ...”

“... It breeds two overlapping kinds of expertise. One is that of the botanist who gives a name to an unknown specimen with the help of published floras, their diagnostic keys, descriptions and illustrations, maybe even with knowledge gained from herbarium specimens. The other is the expertise of those who know trees through long familiarity, like the indigenous ...”

“... which has otherwise not survived, and which must have been vanishingly rare. The fact that the unknown author of the Liber monstrorum knew it too indicates strongly that this work, with its well-known corroboration of Beowulf, also came from Malmesbury. Aldhelm also ‘had access to other classical texts which have not otherwise survived’. But did he ...”

“... inflammation’ and ‘T-lymphocyte infiltrations’ that the Oxford Textbook highlights were unknown to him. Eosinophils – white cells containing granules that are stained strongly by the red dye eosin – were not described until 1880. But the biggest difference between Bristowe’s allergies and those in the Oxford Textbook is not the modern ...”

“... nor does he address the new material on Lenin’s more bloodthirsty and ruthless side (see The Unknown Lenin, edited by Richard Pipes) or even the human side uncovered by Service. Lewin might also be called Leninist in his analysis of what went wrong with the Soviet Union: bureaucratism spoiled everything. ‘Bureaucracy’ has always been a dirty word in ...”

“... a judgment that betrays their lack of self-awareness, and shows these men of knowledge to be unknown to themselves. How, then, should we judge our contemporary men of knowledge? For Gianni Vattimo, the death of God means the dissolution of any ultimate or absolute structures of value. Belief in God is simply one example of a more general human tendency ...”

“... that we still read him and see these plays performed today in “states unborn and accents yet unknown”, as he prophetically put it in Julius Caesar.’ However suspiciously convenient this structure may sound, and however paradoxical and question-begging Shapiro’s conclusion, it makes for a terrific read – there are few other biographical studies of ...”

“... the abstract proposition which has already been asserted as true. This mode of explanation is not unknown outside France, but it has the result here of losing all that is distinctive in the meaning of ideas, attitudes and beliefs for Muslims, since the argument is not grounded in a thorough description of their lives. On several occasions Roy refers to ...”

“... detention without trial by the simple expedient of labelling them unlawful combatants, a category unknown to international law. Outside the stockade, however, the trial remains very much part of the present, and Kadri’s book is a sinewy and knowledgable account of some of its historic extremes. It is not the anthology of celebrated cases that any competent ...”

“... at the despised Poor Law hospitals, the poor whose children were smeared seriatim with lymph of unknown provenance, the poor who would find it hard to pay the fines levied on resisters, and the poor who went to prison if unable to find the cash. Small wonder, then, that working-class opponents saw the Acts as ‘class legislation’ – a form of tyranny ...”

“... as he sees it, betrayed him. He’s assisted by neo-Nazis, whom he views with contempt, but who, unknown to him, have a high-up mole in the police force. Just for good measure, the suspects include an establishment historian, a wartime partisan and a senior civil servant who enjoys humiliating women. Nesbø orchestrates his multiple storylines by exploiting ...”

“... the credit after his death and become world famous as a result (according to Don Foster’s Author Unknown).* War itself was not in any way considered an unpoetic activity. Voltaire, who in other circumstances lambasted France as a ‘land of monkeys and tigers’, and who lived much of his life in resentful exile across the Swiss border, nonetheless composed ...”

“... were deceived. The flood of Noah dies, the rainbow is lived. Yet from the deluge of illusions an unknown colour is saved. If Newton was guilty of unweaving the rainbow, Watkins is determined to stitch it together again. Marriage, friendship and publication had by now cured the desperate self-pity of some of the earlier verse. The matter is often light and ...”