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“... been published in English in this century (the only point of comparison I can see is the poetry of Charles Olson). There is, however, a compensatory strength, evinced in the full and compelling treatment of Richards’s last book, Beyond. Here Russo takes his finger off the pulse of academic acclamation and responds with quiet conviction to a work which fits ...”

“... Italian can become absorbed in Dante without too much in the way of intermediary expertise. Charles Singleton’s version in the Bollingen series takes the more orthodox old-fashioned course – the original Italian facing a plain prose translation – and represents, together with its meticulous apparatus, the summit of what can be done by that ...”

“... poets broadcast by the BBC’s Third Programme in 1961, the prose versions by John Sinclair and Charles Singleton, and an admirable translation – again in prose – by Robert Durling, which will be published in this country by Oxford next year. Behind this we may perhaps see the influence of Eliot’s famous Dante essay of 1929 and of his own ...”

“... with and are charged with making up – the traveller in question being a self-effacing romantic singleton who would not be out of place in a short story by Denton Welch. Now we have the wonders of the near-at-hand, located in and around the Black Mountains of Radnor. Mr Chatwin’s strange new place accommodates the lore of twinship in the manner of a ...”

“... willing to attack them in old age: but the reasons had changed. His first Letter to Archbishop Singleton challenged, in 1837, a Church Commission which had ventured to propose the confiscation of sinecures in order to augment clerical stipends all round. Smith thought this would never do. He said of the Church: ‘I would not have operated so largely on an ...”

“... assiduously collecting Symbolist paintings. He was a pioneer in reestablishing the reputation of Charles Conder and at one time, before a divorce intervened, he had the most important collection of Conder’s paintings in private hands. He is so learned in the more arcane regions of late 19th and early 20th-century culture that there is scarcely anyone he ...”

“... Cemetery beside others who had fought and suffered for the cause of Ireland: Daniel O’Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, Paddy Dignam. Although there is a large collection of Casement documents in the National Library in Dublin (and other items which he brought back from Africa and South America – including costumes and a butterfly collection – in the ...”

“... Eichengreen, Weiler, Fligstein, Siedentop, Gillingham – came from the United States, with a singleton from England before its accession to the Common Market, in the pioneering reconstruction of Alan Milward.This has finally changed. In the last decade Europe has generated a set of thinkers about its integration who command the field, while the ...”