Throughout his career, our columnist has relied on the music of poetry to provide grace, wisdom and even a distraction from the sounds of war

Playwright of dazzling wit and complex ideas Sir ...

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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman