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...Ogden Nash would surely have admired his fellow American T S Eliot (no mean writer of humorous verse either) for the opening lines of “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”: “Let us go then, you and IWhen...
...Marston’s heavyweight reading habits haven’t always translated well — or even intelligibly — to dance narrative (her attempt to use The Waste Land to illuminate TS Eliot’s first marriage was an ambitious...
...— James Kirkup in The Spectator Italy’s Crisis — and Europe’s — Francesco Ronchi in The Wall Street Journal What on earth happened to poor Tommy Robinson?...
...Though he was the junior counsel on the defence side, Hutchinson was responsible for assembling and questioning an array of witnesses from EM Forster to the bishop John Robinson, as well as the academic...
...For many of the speakers, all schooled in British classics — from Chaucer to TS Eliot, via Shakespeare and Dickens — the answer lies in literature....
...Forster CEO, Immunocore Dr Aidan Murphy Senior Vice-president Biologics Development & Manufacturing, Ipsen Biopharm Dr Simon Kerry CEO, Karus Therapeutics Tim Robinson CEO, LGC Debbie Laubach...
...Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive account of TS Eliot’s early years anatomises everything the...
...I’ve just finished Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and just started (very late to the party) Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping....
...Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit, RRP£18.99/RRP$26 Another masterpiece of future-building from Robinson. A vast starship travels to colonise a distant moon....
...James Lovegrove Literary non-fiction Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive account of TS Eliot...
...Virginia Woolf, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, WG Sebald, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Franz Kafka....
...A few weeks ago the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson eulogised the newly retired Sir Alex Ferguson as “the greatest living Briton”....
...How canny of him to rewrite Robinson Crusoe like that, with a tongueless Man Friday and a female narrator....
...Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by John Eliot Gardiner, Allen Lane, RRP£30/Knopf, RRP$35 Mixing scholarliness and practical experience, one of our leading conductors...
...It’s hardly a new subject of course – Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719 – but in the context of the “always-on” digital world, it feels more relevant than ever....
...The real-life records of the partnerships embarked upon by Ted Hughes, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell or TS Eliot (first time round) are hardly more encouraging....
...- Eliot Spitzer, the movie. - Playing the ‘permabear sentiment index‘. - Wall Street crybabies. - Hidden gems in strategic metals. - The bonfire of JM Keynes....
...Toulouse, with rather more justification, presents Oberon in the composer’s native German, thus sparing us James Robinson Planché’s awful English libretto....
...TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, originally published in 1922, features a performance of the poem by Fiona Shaw and readings by TS Eliot, Ted Hughes and Alec Guinness, plus copies of the original manuscript....
...T.S Eliot – Gerontion Related links: www.ft.com/hedgefunds www.twitter.com/samgadjones...
...More to come: When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible starts on BBC4 on Monday, as does an Anne Robinson-hosted BBC2 book talk show, My Life in Books....
...Robinson Crusoe. Writing cuts you off from a lot of things. It’s a solitary adventure. Who are your literary influences?...
...John Kay: George Eliot wrote the book on moral hazard John Kay imagines what advice the renowned author of Middlemarch would give Nicholas Bulstrode about teaching his young and “feckless” nephew Fred –...
...- Deals and sex: Why David Rubenstein is like Eliot Spitzer. - Not-so-haute couture – though the 100k dress isn’t dead – yet. - Ten Uses for an Ex-Journalist – Parts I & II...
...Robinson, a formidably intelligent writer, is well aware of these challenges....
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