William blake: romantic visionary

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

Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside

Dramatic shade and texture bring Thomas Bewick’s blackbird ...

Stanley Spencer’s talent for seeing the spiritual in the everyday, his stirring sense for the wonder of Nature and his love for the landscapes of Berkshire and Suffolk shaped his art, as Matthew Dennison reveals

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

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