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“... whose hawk pursued its prey into his church at Diss; and Phillip Sparrow, a dirge for the young Jane Scrope’s pet bird, a poem one would describe as charming were it not for the fact that its opening liturgical lament is succeeded by his fantasies as to what goes on under the sparrow’s owner’s clothes. Phillip Sparrow also demonstrates his fondness ...”

“... themselves to be ‘fighting for their countryside’. Protest culture has an epic sense of time. Jane, at Fairmile, looks at the oak tree which used to be her home before the evictions, and says: ‘that tree was growing before the internal combustion engine was invented and would have been there after the last oil was used up if it hadn’t been for this ...”

“... It would take only two hundred years for this earth to be pounded into dust. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths are among Australia’s most creative historians. Griffiths’s Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (1996) has become the most quoted work of Australian history in new research, and ...”

“... for the Northwest Passage in the 1840s only further fuelled the imaginative drama of the ice. Lady Jane Franklin, reminding the nation of her husband’s heroism with her own heroic bearing, whipped up sympathy and money for years of searching which finally located the bodies of the party – though not the remains of Franklin himself. But the drama of reality ...”

“... house. The rent was 14 shillings a week. Among his fellow lodgers were a Welsh apothecary named Griffiths, who had the garret-room on the floor above him; a married couple, the Folletts; and a certain ‘well-made’ young man, a solicitor’s clerk, who is referred to in the Liber Amoris as ‘Mr C – ’, but whose real name is given in the manuscripts ...”

“... Chatterton to the Shakespearean forger William Henry Ireland and the Victorian con-artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. Much of this is illuminating, and impressively wide-ranging: the book pirouettes energetically from poetry and the visual arts to law and economics, dropping erudite allusions and scattering portentous insights at the frenetic pace of a ...”

“... of, say, Macmillan to know that he sought solace in his private hours with the works of Livy and Jane Austen, what can one say about someone who, after spending much of her day ranting at her ministers, her civil servants and the Opposition about the evils of socialism, likes to relax, as her confidant, John Vaizey, put it, by ‘exciting herself with books ...”