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In the magnifying glass of the poetic word, Modernism is the history of the twentieth century; it was, you may remember a turbulent history—utopian hopes, political polarisation, prejudice, wars, and ...

The city reconfigures humanity, and re-constellates experience. This was true in Ur or Jericho, and it is true in nineteenth-century Paris. Administrative concentration, an arable and pastoral surplus ...

I admire the mediæval cathedrals as much as anybody, and I am perfectly prepared to recognize the greatness and uniqueness of mediæval craftsmanship. But I believe that æstheticism must never be used ...

THE APPEARANCE OF “The Poems of Rabindranath Tagore” 1 is, to my mind, very important. I am by no means sure that I can convince the reader of this importance. For proof I must refer him to the text.

The anti-intellectualism of the intellectuals. INVESTIGATORS ARE, BY NATURE, INDIVIDUALISTS. We look out for number one and we aren’t in the habit of binding our fates to others—no collective ...

WRITING SEVERAL YEARS AGO on the subject of the relation of the new to the old in art, 2 I formulated a view to which I still adhere, in sentences which I take the liberty of quoting, because the ...

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I do not think that any one who takes the pains to become acquainted with the Oraculo Manual, either in Shopenhauer’s translation or in Spanish, will think that the words of commendation which I have ...

Lyric is understood here as a problem, solved or unsolved, concerning the representation of the self, initially, I think, regarding the processing of the authorial voice in the demands of poetical ...

OLIVE CUSTANCE WAS the long-suffering wife of Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful young man over whom Oscar Wilde lost his reputation, livelihood and family. But at the same time Lord Alfred was ...

Michelene Wandor: The first ‘Very Short Introduction’ appeared in the mid-1990s, and now there are nearly 300 books, which have sold over three million copies, and been translated into over ...