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The Busy Body � review

"An empty comedy of intrigue without any reality of emotion whatsoever" was the crushing verdict of critic Bonamy Dobr�e on this...
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Reassessing Sir Herbert Read

University of Leeds

Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a prolific writer of literary and artistic criticism, prose and poetry with 80 books to his name.
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Tokyo Stradivarius Festival: A Celebration of Genius

Ending on Monday 15 October, the Tokyo Stradivarius Festival 2018 has brought together 21 of the finest Stradivari instruments from all over...
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Thomas Keymer � Emvowelled: Muddy Texts

London Review of Books

For early audiences, the thrill of the chase was part of the fun, and it was better to travel down the byways of...
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Seamus Perry � My God, they stink! Wyndham Lewis goes for it

London Review of Books

If the style of Lewis's prose is in some ways bad, it is bad in the same way that Hulme praised Lewis's paintings...
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Slang-Whanger

Hazlitt was probably the first critic to think hard about prose and the first to recognize that prose, no less than poetry, reflected a fundamental world view.
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The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 5, 1930-1931, edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden � review

From the sacred to smut, Beethoven to the boardroom � the latest volume of correspondence reveals Eliot's loves, lusts and fears
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Frank Kermode � Elizabeth�s Chamber

London Review of Books

2694 words. The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell. Yale, 235 pp., �18.95, May 1991.
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Nick Laird � Chianti in Khartoum: Louis MacNeice

London Review of Books

A novice poet can wander around perfectly happily for years in MacNeice's enormous and baggy Collected Poems and emerge with a decent grounding in poetic...
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Interview with a poet: Richard Murphy, an old Spectator hand

Richard Murphy was born in County Mayo in Ireland in 1927. He spent part of his childhood in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where his father was the...
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