Craig Raine

Czesław Miłosz in Paris in 2001

Worthy, but wordy

1 July 2017 9:00 am

Milan Kundera’s novel Immortality wryly depicts Goethe preparing for immortality — neatly laying out his life in Dichtung und Warheit…

Boxing clever

29 April 2017 9:00 am

Thirty years ago, Russell Davies wrote a weekly sporting column in the New Statesman. It proved unsustainable and was soon…

Ezra Pound as a young man

The nature of genius

18 February 2017 9:00 am

On 21 December 1945, Ezra Pound was confined to St Elizabeths hospital in Washington DC. He had broadcast for Rome…

Ezra Pound as a young man

The nature of genius

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

On 21 December 1945, Ezra Pound was confined to St Elizabeths hospital in Washington DC. He had broadcast for Rome…