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In 1885, John Ruskin resigned as Slade Professor of Art to protest the establishment a laboratory for experimental physiology at Oxford University. ‘I cannot lecture in the next room to a shrieking cat’, he announced, ‘nor address myself to the men who have been – there is no word for it.’ The word that Ruskin […]
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The English author John Milton, who never set foot in Ireland, has long been a consequential presence there nonetheless. Since 1890, for example, visitors to the National Library of Ireland in Dublin have entered through a semicircular lobby in which a beatific face of John Milton shone down on them as they arrived. In order […]
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What do you feel when you look at something beautiful? Take this honeysuckle pattern, copied from a Greek vase. As your eyes trace its symmetrical curves, can you feel your “two lungs draw in a long breath”? Do those inhalations give you a “sense of expansion,” or a “vague feeling of harmony”? How about your […]
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The English poet John Keats died in 1821, and almost immediately his friend Joseph Severn began working on the portrait of Keats that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Severn painted from memory, capturing Keats sitting among his books – one of which he is reading – in his home at Hampstead Heath. […]
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What does it mean to write a novel of ideas? These are works of fiction that foreground debate and disputation-like the discussions of Zionism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, the politico-religious arguments in G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, the utopian speculations of H.G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia, the debates about Communism in Doris […]
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Starting in 2015, in the wake of the shooting of ten members of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC by white supremacist Dylann Roof, a movement grew to dismantle the icons of the Confederacy throughout the South. Shortly after the shooting, Bree Newsome climbed up a flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina […]
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‘Read as one of the masterpieces by a person not acquainted with our literature, it might easily give an impression that this literature is not immense’. Henry James’s words in his introduction to a 1900 edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield are a far cry from the unrestrained enthusiasm publishers expect from editors […]
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Volume 6 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, spanning June 1934 through June 1936, includes 366 items of correspondence, directed to 116 recipients. In our introductions to the volume, we note that Hemingway’s enthusiasm for the growing sport of deep-sea fishing is a dominant theme of his letters of this period. Accordingly, in the photos […]
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