“... way of life bound up with polish and with one of Jennings’s abiding and most inspiring subjects, light. It also approaches the life of a lonely artist obsessed with art, and intent on doing her own thing. Elizabeth Jennings, who wore her plimsolls to go and see the Queen (to receive a CBE), was indubitably such a person. She treasured some close ...”

“... the Columbia School of Journalism but turned it down to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where Donald Justice became his mentor. At the time, Justice was experimenting with both traditional metres and syllabics: ‘The old order was starting to break apart and a new, looser order was looming,’ as Wright recalls. He’s fond of Montale’s claim that ...”

“... and Gary Snyder on whom Cathay made such an impact, British poets as different from each other as Donald Davie and Jeremy Prynne, Objectivists like Oppen and Reznikoff, and of course the whole group of poets associated with Black Mountain College – Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan and Charles Olson. Of all these it was Charles Olson ...”

“... He is referring to the FBI.*Pornography star Stormy Daniels provides a detailed description of Donald Trump’s penis. Although Trump had bragged about the size of his member in the primary debates and in campaign speeches, Daniels, based on her professional expertise, laughingly refutes this.*Hurricane Florence causes basins containing more than two ...”

“... Street Where I sit in the reading room At the window the sun comes and goes Like a heart pumping light This is from ‘The Days’, which appeared in a collection called The Floor and the Breath in 1994. The publisher was Cairn Editions, an imprint O’Brien set up in order to get out his own work and that of his friend Frank Kuenstler; no one else was ...”

“... difficult to expound, but it is very difficult to apply. It has been responsible for bringing to light everything that has been discovered in the domain of any skill ... it was a gift from the gods to men ...’ The description of the method that follows is open to many interpretations, especially when one tries to square it with the subsequent fourfold ...”

“... tempted to call ‘poetic’ and an austerity derived from Minimalist and Conceptual precursors. (Donald Judd was one of Horn’s first collectors, and installed the truncated copper cones of Things That Happen Again at Marfa in 1988.) A Romantic Conceptualism, then, or a richly metaphorical Minimalism. Interviewed in 1997, and sounding a little like Gertrude ...”

“... we cared they could have been made the day before. We would rerun ‘Moses Supposes’ (Kelly and Donald O’Connor spinning and pinning down their elocution teacher in a tap dance of schoolboy naughtiness), ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ (flu-defying splashes in puddles), ‘I Got Rhythm’ (Kelly teaching French kids how to dance like aeroplanes and ‘chu-chu ...”

“... for replacing capitalism with a qualitatively different social and economic order, or else as the light that failed. The achievement of Donald Sassoon’s One Hundred Years of Socialism is to offer a full and convincing resolution of this problem. Sassoon’s approach is catholic. He does not adopt a restrictive definition ...”

“... later, from the Preface to War Music, that Logue had undertaken the project at the suggestion of Donald Carne-Ross, who was then commissioning a version of the Iliad for the BBC. I was impressed by the reading, but every now and then found myself at a loss to reconcile what I was hearing with the Greek poem I knew so well. Logue’s Preface explained why I ...”

“... economic and military history, by Keith Thomas’s Man and the Natural World and by the work of Donald Worster and Alfred Crosby. If environmental history is quite a new development, however, environmentalism is not. In Green Imperialism Richard Grove demonstrates that modern, scientific environmentalism, and the state-sponsored programmes of conservation ...”

“... I know this is 1865, and I know the author is 61, but this interlude allows some millennial light to seep in: Lady Margaret is ‘insecure’, ‘anxious’, that sort of thing. The terrible Ponsonby is haughty and has an aquiline nose, obvs, and he also has a cough, less obvs, which comes out annoyingly before everything he says – and what he says is ...”

“... reminiscence. A vivid presence in Dublin in the 1950s was the ‘morally intimidating’ Donald Davie, then a fellow at Trinity College, where Donoghue would drop in on him to discuss modern poetry. ‘He used the word “infidel”,’ Donoghue remembers, ‘more freely and more deliberately than I supposed it had ever been used since the 17th ...”

“... experts in consciousness who have got to know the hard way where the limits of their theories lie. Donald Davie’s new sequence of poems, ‘Three for Water-Music’ (which fills the first third of his Carcanet paperback), refers not only to pleasant 18th-century entertainments by water, but to something like Yeats’s ‘words for music, perhaps’: or like ...”

“... are the ashes of old controversy, and my excuse for raking them over is that doing so may throw light on a tiny fragment of the past which seems to grow in interest even as it begins to slip out of historical focus: that is, what it was like to grow up in the Thirties – in my case, in the late Thirties. I arrived at Westminster School, as a King’s ...”