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...That makes it Europe’s biggest climate tech hub according to Andrew Wordsworth, one of the brains behind it....
...Their newest show is in the very different confines of the classical Royal Academy in London, a space lacking in the raw, brutal qualities of their architecture....
...At Wisley they flower by the thousand, wild daffodils as Wordsworth never saw them, thriving in damp soil in a routine which leaves them unmown until September....
...When Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud and saw daffodils in Cumbria, he did not see the tall yellows which have invaded modern villages....
...It was designed by Michelangelo and has unobstructed views — what better place to recall Wordsworth’s magic hymn to the verdant giant?...
...“Except Wordsworth.” “And mine,” says Plath with feeling. Van Gogh and I compare mental hospitals. A garden and a view, we agree, were the best treatments we had....
...The country evoked in MacNeice’s “Autumn Journal”, its “glory veneered and varnished”, is the one that still bursts into light and colour in the Royal Academy’s stirring exhibition Spain and the Hispanic...
...Grigely, like Wordsworth, asks us to narrow and conflate our senses, to absorb the aural world through vision alone....
...Between 2019 and 2022, the number of patrons at the V&A grew by 11 per cent whereas at the Royal Academy, where private money is critical due to the lack of any government funding, there was a 45 per cent...
...The Chinese government has set up a consortium of companies and research institutes, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to create new chip intellectual property....
...We Brits have always had a melancholic streak, preferring Keats to Wordsworth and celebrating DH Lawrence. The Smiths’ “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” couldn’t have been a hit in any other country....
...Nadal has promised to “spend dedicated time” in the Gulf kingdom to help develop young talent, and will set up a Rafael Nadal Academy to that end....
...Dorothy Wordsworth wrote. “We come to the Valais every year,” grins a fellow walker, an autumn-struck teacher from Zurich, as we gaze at a birch posing on a slope like a film star in backless gold....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...In one sense, Everett is, as Wordsworth put it, creating the taste by which he is to be relished. There’s nobody else quite like him, with his mash of ideas, chaos, satire and frivolity....
...At times more forthright strength would be welcome (compare Pears’s fervour in the Wordsworth narrative from the Nocturne), but Staples is alive to the texts and marvellously detailed....
...Her work has been shown at Frieze, The Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, Hauser & Wirth, Eye of the Collector and The Armory in New York....
...Most folk music takes its poetic inspiration, if at all, from the 17th and 18th centuries, from broadside ballads and the Romantics, up until the point that Wordsworth sees a hunger-bitten girl leading a...
...What “tossed and reeled and danced”, according to an 1802 diary entry by Dorothy Wordsworth? In 1982, a law was passed in Zimbabwe banning jokes about the president’s name — what was it?...
...Appropriately enough, you pass the Royal Danish Academy for architecture and will see the modern Opera looming on your right....
...The Venezuelan government, which has so far relied on Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and China’s Sinopharm jab, has also expressed interest in the Cuban product....
...As a child in 1950s Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid encountered William Wordsworth at school....
...Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, as Wordsworth wrote....
...In 1850, when Wordsworth died, Mackay was said to be in the running to replace him as poet laureate....
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