literature

  • For W B Yeats he was “the chief imagination of Christendom”; for T S Eliot he was a supreme poet and philosopher. In Dante in Love, the Staffordshireborn novelist and biographer presents a glittering study of an artist and his...0April 24, 2012

    A N Wilson: Dante In Love

    For W B Yeats he was “the chief imagination of Christendom”; for T S Eliot he was a supreme poet and philosopher. In Dante in Love, the Staffordshireborn novelist and biographer presents a glittering study of an artist and his…

  • Reading and writing letters punctuated the rhythms of Dickens’s day. ‘I walk about brimful of letters’, he told a friend. Here is Dickens writing out of the heat of the moment: as a novelist, journalist, and magazine editor; as a...0April 26, 2012

    Jenny Hartley

    Reading and writing letters punctuated the rhythms of Dickens’s day. ‘I walk about brimful of letters’, he told a friend. Here is Dickens writing out of the heat of the moment: as a novelist, journalist, and magazine editor; as a…

  • Clinical Pharmacologist Prof Donald Singer and literary studies expert Dr Sorcha Gunne (both from the University Of Warwick) discuss where medicine and poetry meet. This initiative was the winner of the 2011 Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in...0April 26, 2012

    The Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine

    Clinical Pharmacologist Prof Donald Singer and literary studies expert Dr Sorcha Gunne (both from the University Of Warwick) discuss where medicine and poetry meet. This initiative was the winner of the 2011 Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in…