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...A setting of words from a John Donne sermon, it never failed to thrill with its unexpected turns and discords and a crashing final note....
...He goes to Oxford aged 12, then at 16 to the Inns of Court, where he becomes good friends with the playwright Ben Jonson and poet John Donne....
...In this performance, soprano Lucy Crowe and baritone Roderick Williams are the excellent soloists and Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra....
...But one misses the musical evocativeness of the third act of Adams’s Nixon in China, “The Aria of the Falling Body” in The Death of Klinghoffer and John Donne’s “Batter My Heart” in Doctor Atomic....
...All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaediaby Simon Garfield, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £18.99/William Morrow $29.99 February 28, 2023 Simon Garfield, author of quirky histories...
...Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donneby Katherine Rundell, Faber £16.99 Soldier, poet, prisoner and priest, John Donne — a contemporary of Shakespeare — was many things, making him a tricky...
..., and basketball star Elena Delle Donne....
...Stubbs — whose previous books include a prizewinning biography of John Donne, The Reformed Soul (2006) and a group biography, Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War (2011) — opts here for a chronological...
...poppy score dominated by duelling electric guitar and sitar (yes, if you want to hear an overdriven sitar, Shakespeare’s Globe is the place to go); the musical numbers include settings of Sonnet 116, John Donne...
...Earlier on Saturday the president toured the Globe theatre on the south bank of the Thames to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death....
...The other friend doesn’t read much of contemporary writers; she spends her time reading John Donne and Jane Austen, so I always trust her mind, which has a timeless quality....
...More vivid is John Williams, a Cambridge academic and cleric who was a favourite of James I. The affable Williams was dean of Westminster and keeper of the royal seal, and became Herbert’s mentor....
...Spencer, asked by Mark Gertler what he thought of Picasso, replied: “I haven’t got past Piero della Francesca yet”, and remained absorbed in his mystic, discordant “John Donne Arriving in Heaven” (“I seemed...
...The most enjoyable is William Davenant, the high-living poet laureate who started life as godson (perhaps even son?)...
...In the early part of this period religious observance was often a very private matter, as the Catholic William Byrd in a largely Protestant England knew....
...PhiladelphiaMarcel Duchamp: Etant Donnés Marcel Duchamp forsook art for chess in 1923....
...SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM EMPSON edited by John Haffenden Oxford University Press ₤40, 729 pages Two days after she gave birth to a child by her lover, Peter Duval Smith, poet and critic William Empson...
...Next month, a perfectly preserved collection of 19 watercolours by William Blake will be auctioned in New York....
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