Gnomes, grottos and tame hermits: the weirdest English gardens in history
English Garden Eccentrics by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan unearths four centuries of unfettered horticultural fancies
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English Garden Eccentrics by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan unearths four centuries of unfettered horticultural fancies
Daisy Dunn’s ‘Not Far from Brideshead’ explores how interwar academics put their stamp on the degree that produced the Prime Minister
A newly opened archive of Eliot’s letters sheds light on his friendship with Woolf.
T. S. Eliot, la emoción contemplada Poeta, dramaturgo y uno de los mejores pensadores de la literatura inglesa, el autor de ´La tierra baldía´ es el vigilante nocturno que ataca la estética romántica, defiende a los poetas metafísicos y se atreve a criticar a Shakespeare y Milton Por: Juan Arnau El escritor T. S. Eliot (St. Louis, Misuri, 1888 - Londres, 1965), retratado en 1957. La poesía no importa. Nunca dejaremos de explorar. El futuro es una canción pasada. Dante vivió en una época en la que los hombres aun tenían visiones. No tenemos más que sueños y hemos olvidado las vis...
With no warning, one of Britain’s most brilliant young novelists suddenly burst into the room where his wife was chatting to friends. Then, in a frenzied attack, he began beating her head, face and breasts. For a few moments, it looked as if he might kill her. At that point, D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley had been married for just two years. ‘The most wonderful woman in all England’, he’d called her the day after they first met, convinced she’d transform his life. Many years later, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which Lawrence wrote in 1928, would become the subject of an infamous tri...