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...in the 1920s; Matisse rendering Mallarmé’s symbolist poems as flows of pattern and texture in the 1930s; Paula Rego unforgettably distilling the tension between fairy tale and psychodrama in her “Jane Eyre...
...The display begins with Bewick, William Blake and Samuel Palmer, who saw in Blake’s engravings “visions of little dells, and nooks, and corners of Paradise” unveiling “the soul of beauty through the forms...
...harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres...
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...But Blake in his magnificent courage would counsel not despair but unceasing “mental fight”. harry.eyres@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/eyres...
...Friendship, however you define it (Ricks quotes Blake’s “opposition is true friendship”), is hardly a technical term, and the book illuminates personal connections as well as poetic ones between the five...
...Read Harry Eyres’ Slow Lane column this week...
...extracted from SI’s 6,000 word paean to sportsmen and women who have made less-than-wise investment decisions – like trusting their money to Sir Allen Stanford, as pitchers Mike Pelfrey of the Mets and Scott Eyre...
...The female choices might be Emma Bovary (passionate), Homer’s Penelope (loyal), Scarlett O’Hara (wilful with GSOH) or Jane Eyre (intense, honest)....
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