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...In 1856 a local paper reported Margaret Hughes of Nant Syddion had miraculously given birth to quadruplets....
...Ted Hughes’ philosophy was that poetry “is a universal language in which we can all hope to meet”....
...Across much of human history, poets — Shelley’s “unacknowledged legislators of the world” — have been, by tacit consent, granted the basic freedom to protest against injustice....
...The premise is a neat one, and Hughes uses it to drive home the fine line between ideological intransigence and licence to thuggery....
...Dionysus was likened to Rama and Shiva by the orientalist Sir William Jones, whose writings were absorbed by Byron and Shelley and flowed into the thought of Nietzsche, who advocated the return of Dionysiac...
...In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, by Fiona Sampson, Profile, RRP£18.99/Pegasus, RRP$28.95 (June) A biography by a prizewinning poet, published for the novel’s bicentenary....
...I’m about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen. Phone on or off? I don’t think I’ll get the chance to do a true digital detox myself this summer....
...Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She achieved at 19 what I’ll be hopelessly grasping after for the rest of my life. What are you most proud of writing?...
...John Hughes: A Life in Film, by Kirk Honeycutt, Race Point, RRP$40 Giant coffee-table tribute to the oddly under-discussed John Hughes (1950-2009), who remains ceaselessly influential as a writer, producer...
...However, analysts at Evolution Securities said other industry operators, such as GE, Weatherford, Baker Hughes and Halliburton could also be interested “in a quality business such as Expro with the added...
...Additional reporting by Chris Hughes...
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