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

The “Emperor of the Night”, as he has been grandly called,1 the Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys was the great pioneer of “lucid dreaming”: to be aware, while you are fully asleep, that you are dreamin

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the ...

On one level he seems so direct, so simple, so uncomplicatedly appealing. Schubert could turn on heart-lifting melody with the same ease that most of us would turn on a tap. Often he seems happy just

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Andrew Graham-Dixon ...