IN A DISCUSSION programme on the topic “ Language and Reinvention ”, broadcast on 1st February this year on BBC Radio 4, Vahni Capildeo said, “When I was growing up I had the idea that the poet could ...

By ROBERT DESNOS. A new translation with an introductory note by Simon Collings. ROBERT DESNOS’ SEQUENCE of surreal puns, ‘Rrose Sélavy’ 1 was composed in 1922-23, when the poet was a rising star in ...

As to Valéry’s remark about simplicity and its relation to Corot’s art, several contemporaneous critics in fact impugned him for his “simplicity,” “naivety,” even “clumsiness.” His late-life and ...

Elliott Coleman: 'I think it may be shown that Proust is more Christian than anything else. And further, it seems to me that in his unflagging and almost undeviating search for meaning, reality, and ...

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These are asides, of which there are many, in a continuum of appeals for help in knowing where he (or it, or everything) went wrong, but also including statements of belief and trust, and tales, ...

WE WERE ALONE in the gardens of the hotel, awaiting fruit cocktails that were not arriving. After the many years that I have come to this country, I should know that time is not the same here as ...

Of particular satisfaction to me is that this new transatlantic tribute features a painting I have always considered one of Tintoretto’s greatest, though it has generally gone unnoticed not only by ...

Walter Pater was a critic and essayist whose work appeared frequently in The Fortnightly Review. This essay was published in No. XXII n.s. (October 1877). Along with three other essays originally ...

THE CONSTRUCTION OF TROLLOPE’S novels is so good we might think them drafted and planned as a spacious building is by a thoughtful architect; and since we know that most of them appeared as serials ...

Faces Places (Visages Villages) Written and directed by Agnès Varda and JR. PG | 1h 34min | Documentary | First released 28 June 2017 (France). UK release 21 September 2018. By SIMON COLLINGS. . THERE ...

By GILBERT THOMAS. IT IS A hundred years 1 since, unrecognised and unlamented by the world, Shelley was drowned off Leghorn [in 1822]. The “facts” of his life – strangely wooden word when applied to ...