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...He inspired Lord Byron’s tragedy The Two Foscari and, in turn, Verdi’s opera I due Foscari....
...Muses still exist — today, we call them star f*****s — but their glory days are past....
...Lord Byron would have been aghast had his letters been burnt....
...Tamsin was along for the entire PJ Femme ride, unofficial adviser as well as muse. “It’s timeless and beautiful but also personal....
...Mary Wollstonecraft was no man’s muse....
...Byron, Keats and Wordsworth all had their own varieties of melancholic reverie....
...The new nature writers and poets flocked to the site to chronicle and muse....
...Ali was the ideal muse. Other fighters were too monstrous (Liston, Tyson) or too vanilla (Patterson, Marciano), at least outwardly....
...Here even Aran knits are embroidered with Botticellian pastoral scenes worthy of the house’s dreamy 1960s muse: the textile artist and swinging Londoner Celia Birtwell. £5,205, Valentino 12 The Tweed Project...
...Waking Lions, by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated by Sondra Silverston, Pushkin Press, RRP£12.99 “People live entire lives with some measure or another of unease,” muses Israeli neurosurgeon Eiten Green...
...And it also holds special significance, bringing him to the country of Lord Byron – the only western poet he was able to read in North Korea....
...Headliners include Gorillaz and Muse (festival-heads who have come from Glastonbury may get a shiver of déjà vu), Patti Smith and Them Crooked Vultures....
...he muses. “To be straight, or to give a persona?” For Pierre, catapulted into notoriety by his first book, the question has force. I ask him about that Man Booker night. “Yeah, that was mad....
...Decades later, writers as various as Hazlitt and Byron were still pouring scorn, cautiously – Byron asked his publisher to put out his squib “The Blues” anonymously, otherwise “I shall have all the old women...
...What distinguishes these biographies from their predecessors however is a shift in Emma’s portrayal from irritating harridan to difficult but more empathetically depicted muse....
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