The long road to paradise

A History of England in 25 Poems: Treasures ...

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers

Goethe: A Life in Ideas Matthew Bell (Princeton ...

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

Actor, presenter and now author Larry Lamb reveals why the written word – particularly verse – has always meant so much to him