“... out unnoticed. The Codex Regius of Eddic poetry, greatest memorial of Northern literature, lay unknown to the rest of the world in an Icelandic farmhouse for some four hundred years till Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson acquired it in 1643. Then the news began, slowly, to leak out. The OED records ‘Viking’ as a word first used in 1807, and it had been well ...”

“... with the elemental fire of flatulence. It was an awful curry. Why else would two internationally unknown poets, in Galway to recite our internationally unheard of poems, the guests of the Cuirt Festival of Literature, be talking about the implications of the invention of the flush toilet and about its inventor, that dismal man whose name shall for ever be ...”

“... of his mouth. The eyes behind the pince-nez are sly and a bit roguish.’ (A widower, he kept an unknown mistress in Namur.) Yourcenar remarks: ‘I cannot say that I heard the cry of blood when I looked at that photo; in short, it is not the image of a man who would rain blows on someone weak or impaired.’ Nevertheless, it may be that this personable ...”

“... should be friends,’ Korolev said. They never met. Korolev died of cancer in 1966, still largely unknown in the West. Leonid Brezhnev was one of the people who carried his coffin. The space age is only forty years old. It is already very hard to tell the story so far in any concise way – the science, the engineering solutions, the false trails, the ...”

“... it was for the UK. The only option is suppression, and its consequences, economic and social, are ...”

“... Brin, Wolfe, Morrow, Elgin, as opposed to what then seemed to be a Le Guin solo. The reason is unknown. Nevertheless, Science Fiction does seem to be back on course – exploratory, confused, scientific, even post-Gothic (so far with Aldiss), but also disrespectful, parricidal, un-awed by its brushes against literary celebrity. To all this, Aldiss’s book ...”

“... Hartman argues, can never be retrieved but can serve instead as a prompt for reflection on the unknown and the unknowable. In his final chapter, Rogers dismissively attributes this line of interpretation to a ‘racial polarisation … fuelled by American identity politics’. He asks that Hartman, and others who focus on the trauma of the Atlantic slave ...”

“... that ‘over the years of working at it, I came to think of translating as a room, not exactly an unknown room, where one gropes for the light switch. I guess it never ends. A brother never ends. I prowl him.’ Williams’s version of this poem captures its sadness by turning it artfully, but without jute entanglements, into an airport misery poem which ...”

“... homes and the offices of estate agents who marketed them. (The identity of its members remains unknown.)All of this activism drew strength from a larger cultural revival. Welsh publishing houses and record labels sprang up, along with Welsh bands, some achieving major national and international success. There was a renewed sense of cultural ...”

“... Queen Elizabeth II. While the ermine robe and Tudor crown were later additions, painted by an unknown hand, Akkerman points out that ‘commissioning or even possessing this painting would have been nothing less than treason’ for subjects in England, no matter how disillusioned they were by James’s pacific inaction or by the apparently popish ...”

“... Wayne Rooney leading his parents out of the sea on a Mexican beach. They are about to move into an unknown world, where they will, all three, lurch from idolisation to easy prey, from objects of pity to mean-spirited envy – the adolescent has a gift, the elders have his blood. Their fate is in their veins. In the eyes of the mob, the gutter press, the ...”

“... be a more significant book. Yet the novel that burst on the world in 1740 is almost entirely unknown. This new Oxford edition of Pamela is the first British one ever to return to Richardson’s original. In America, Richardson’s biographers Duncan Eaves and Ben Kimpel produced for Riverside a version of the 1740 Pamela, but it was rarely used in the ...”

“... just possibly future ages may be able to see.’ She goes on to invoke George Herbert’s ‘Love Unknown’, translating his figure of the life touched by God into secular terms: ‘But I think we should be gay in spite of it, sometimes even giddy – to make life endurable and to keep ourselves “new, tender, quick”.’ Some of the drafts Quinn has ...”

“... sleep deprivation, been forced to make a false confession after sitting in a room listening to an unknown woman screaming next door, been kept for eight months in solitary confinement in a tiny steel cell with no natural light, witnessed the murder of two prisoners by US guards, and been constantly and repetitively questioned about fantastical crimes for ...”

“... alien. The best chapters in the book are ‘My Hustlers’ – ‘the excitement of ordering up an unknown guy on the phone’ – and ‘My Master’, which is about White’s thrilling sado-masochistic relationship with a young actor. He writes both poignantly and excitingly about sexual encounters, and these chapters are at once gripping and complicated in ...”