Alice Oswald
Bringing Homer into the home: how the Iliad and Odyssey became widely available
Henry Power surveys the many English translations over the centuries, from Arthur Hall’s faltering 1581 version to Alice Oswald’s mysterious Memorial of 2011
The greatest paintings are always full of important unimportant things
Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection, at the Courtauld, consists of a selection of 25 absorbing paintings…
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A fascinating failure, but a failure nonetheless: ENO’s Salome reviewed
Yes, Oscar Wilde never wrote it. No, Strauss didn’t intend it. In fact, the composer famously demanded the Dance of…
The greatest anti-war poem of all
The Iliad begins with a grudge and ends with a funeral. In between are passages, if not necessarily of boredom,…
Low life
I’m such a constitutional lightweight lately that I’ve started looking on the website What’s On in South Devon for things…
