A lone inquirer

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A lone inquirer

Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman

David E. We

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The TLS Magazine

28 November, 2025

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A poet and thinker with plenty to say

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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

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Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

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Anepicjourney

‘Dear Mr Grieg: I am writing to you in connection with a plan that I propose to implement, and in which I wish to invite your participation.’ The tone is impeccably formal and business-like, but the l

The Critic

A poet and thinker with plenty to say

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

BBC Music Magazine

Franz schubert

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

The TLS

The kraken wakes

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

The Critic

A heavyweight companion for life

Jonathan Gaisman is a KC and a writer on cultural topics

The Critic

Lyrical wormholes into the past

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

BBC Music Magazine

Anepicjourney