The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...

Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the o

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist

The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel

Ian McEwan is strolling through the garden of his Cotswolds manor house. Bees waft drowsily between wildflowers. Plump apples, pears and walnuts bauble the trees. Vibrant cerulean-blue damselflies hov

The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë