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“... observes. ‘And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.’‘Mowing’, according to Adam Plunkett in his new critical biography, marked a shift in Frost’s early writing. It stands out not only as a poem about work (the labour of scything and seeding and building that would become his subject), but as a poem about poetry, with debts to ...”

“... by Ma Kilman, the village obeah-woman and widowed proprietor of the ‘NO PAIN CAFE’. Major Plunkett, British expatriate, wounded veteran of the Second World War and now St Lucian pig farmer, is obsessed with Helen, the proud and beautiful young woman who used to work as his wife Maud’s maid. He identifies her with her island and tries to discover its ...”

“... of society. The process culminated with Smith-Dorrien-Smith in the later 19th century, and with Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax in the early 20th, but there was also the fine example of orthographical nuttiness (not in these sample counties) of Newdigate-Newdegate. Inheritance might be made conditional on name change, and this became increasingly the way that ...”