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Monday, October 19, 2020
Lost in the uncomfortable night of nothing.
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Although long recognized as a work of World literature, for many Urn-Burial (1658) is neither easy or comfortable to read. With its melanc...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Thomas Browne and 'the Opium of Time'.
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It was the literary critic Peter Green in 1959 who first speculated - ‘Did Browne possibly take laudanum? It seems very likely. ...
Monday, October 05, 2015
The Macclesfield Psalter: A Medieval Norwich Gem
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Spike Bucklow's The Riddle of the Image: The Secret Science of Medieval Art (2014) is a scholarly, yet accessible analysis of med...
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Merivel: A Man of his Time
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Returning some twenty plus years from Restoration (1989) novelist Rose Tremain continues her tale of Sir Robert Merivel's life ...
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