George Herbert
The many passions of Ronald Blythe
Some he kept hidden, such as his affairs with soldiers in the second world war, but his love of nature, literature, naked sunbathing and moonlit bicycling are all well-attested
Pure and endless light
There has been extraordinarily little bright sunlight in the far northwest corner of Britain over the past year. Damp, drizzling…
Reducing poetry to a science
Is it possible to tell a good poem from a bad one? To put the question another way: are there…
Tavener’s lament
Best line of the week came on Monday from the composer John Tavener, and was given added poignancy by the…
Lovely, enchanting language
When John Drury, himself an Anglican divine, told James Fenton (the son of a canon of Christ Church) that he…
