“Hardy’s poetry is pre-eminently about ways of seeing. This is evident in the numerous angles of vision he employs in so many… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“The intellectual context in which Eliot began work on the "long poem" that was to become The Waste Land has much to… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Extremely self-conscious in its craft, in many ways The Hand of Ethelberta is an exploration of fiction as illusion, which involves parody… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“Tick is a humble genesis, tock a feeble apocalypse; and tick-tock is in any case not much of a plot. We need… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf was two years older than Virginia, whom he had first met in 1901 in the rooms of her brother Thoby… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“What, then, can Shakespearean tragedy, on this brief view, tell us about human time in an eternal world? It offers imagery of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The ideology of liberal humanism found expression in the earliest reviews of Hardy’s writing and remained a dominant force until the explosion… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suVered another breakdown and her mental health… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
