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

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

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

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

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

The memoirs of a high- and lowbrow émigré composer