William Shakespeare

LR has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound still believed that the movement...

But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads...

PHJ includes among her topics Edith Sitwell , Shakespeare , Ivy Compton-Burnett , and Proust : these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes...

Many of these novels centre on their protagonist in such a way as to give them a strong generic relationship with the biographies to which she later turned, and the protagonists tend to be either...

Most of the stories are reprinted from periodicals. The book also includes excerpts from s and journal entries, as well as notes taken during Greek classes with William Cory , and six unpublished poems. A...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

Kate Summerscale writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up...

Railway stations and refreshment rooms were now added to the list of amenities subject to critical comment. Clipped yew hedges near Nettlecombe in North Somerset were regarded as a relic of the past. They noted...

MB visited Stratford upon Avon, whose associations with Shakespeareproved a perfect source of inspiration to her.

They travelled via Stratford upon Avon, where they were gratified by the historical memory of Shakespeare , and then Ludlow, Montgomery, Dolgellau, and Caernarfon, to the seaside town of Barmouth...

She waxed satirical to Elizabeth Vesey about the two poems entered for the Academy's prize, and especially about the reading of Voltaire 's paper against Shakespeare (whose plays, recently translated into French, he thought capable...

Her role in the Porgy and Bess touring company was MA 's passport to travel the world. In Montreal she felt able for the first time in her life to look freely at white people...

She often visited Stratford-on-Avon to meet friends and to see Shakespeare plays; she noted that these trips restored and revitalised her.

A truck came to pick her up in the morning, giving her time to pack only a few warm clothes and books. She mistakenly packed two Bibles, and two collected Shakespeare s (which were...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...