Memorabilia
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you? And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new! But you were living before that, And you are living after, And the...
View ArticleTennyson, Browning, populism, Victoriana
A couple of posts back I lumped The Charge of the Light Brigade in with Kipling and Newbolt as ‘populist poetry’, as contrasted with ‘literary poetry’. I’m still not wild about that distinction,...
View ArticleHarmison’s dew-pearled
The lark’s on the wing, The snail’s on the thorn, Harmison is on fire, Panesar is taking key wickets, Pietersen is holding his catches, God’s in his heaven – All’s right with the world! As I’m sure...
View ArticleShelley the lost Victorian
Well, I’ve finished Richard Holmes’s Shelley:The Pursuit. I didn’t find it as gripping as his superb biography of Coleridge, but it became more enjoyable as it went along. Mainly, I think, because...
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