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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2
Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
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Quick notes on editing ‘New Boots’
(Eek, it’s been a while since I posted here! Still struggling with the unresolvable first section of my Mexican post, with the actual intro for New Boots and Pantisocracies just gone to the publisher, this is a few notes I … Continue reading
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Tagged Biographia Literaria, Choman Hardi, Ezra Pound, Fiona Moore, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lyrical Ballads, Marx, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Oscar Wilde, Poetry Book Fair, Ron Villanueva, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sophie Mayer, The Smith Commission, Venus and Adonis, W.S. Graham
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Whose English Is It Anyway?
(This is a very overdue reposting of a poem commissioned for The Verb as part of the BBC’s 2014 Freethinking Festival. The delay, apart from the usual reluctance to appear to be self-publishing anything beyond the lightest or most spontaneous … Continue reading
Heroes and Homilies (2)
(This second section is where the homiletic theme appears in relation to Henryson. Parts of this draw on a review of Heaney’s Henryson, reproduced elsewhere on this blog, that I did for The Scottish Review of Books. But, as I’m … Continue reading
Heroes and Homilies (1)
(This talk was delivered in the summer of 2014 at Bede’s World as part of their lecture series, and to accompany an exhibition curated by Roger Wollen, ‘Myths, Memories and Mysteries,’ which focussed on a number of contemporary artists influenced … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alice Oswald, Bede's World, Beowulf, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Christopher Logue, Ezra Pound, Gawain and the Green Knight, HOmer, J.O. Morgan, John Donne, John Dryden, Joyce, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindisfarne, Patience Agbabi, Robert Henryson, Roger Wollen, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Simon Armitage, Tennyson, Testament of Cresseid, The Battle of Maldon, The Canterbury Tales, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Troilus and Cressida, Virgil
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Love and the Romans, III
The central role of rhetoric in an educated Roman’s life cannot be overstated at this point. Schooled in it from childhood, every Roman male knew it was his duty to articulate the sentiments of the state, and in his best … Continue reading
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Tagged A.D. Melville, Anna Karenina, Calvus, Casanova, Corinna, Cypassis, Don Juan, Gallus, Goethe, Horace, Madame Bovary, Maecenas, Ovid, Pyrrha, Romeo, Shakespeare
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Love and the Romans, I
(This is the text of the talk I gave on St Valentine’s Day at the McManus, Dundee, to accompany their marvellous exhibition of Roman artefacts. I’ve divided it into three parts.) In the play, ‘The Invention of Love’, Tom Stoppard … Continue reading
Interview with the Gumpire
(This is the text of an email interview a student conducted with me this April for a project – I didn’t know them and, while they gave permission for their questions to be reproduced here, they preferred not to give … Continue reading
The Great Moc Gonagall
Norman Watson, Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall (Birlinn) One of the first books of poetry I remember from my childhood is listed in the bibliography to this new life of William McGonagall, the enigmatic purveyor of bad verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Buster Keaton, Byron, D.C.Thomson, Douglas Dunn, Hamish Henderson, Lowden Macartney, Peter Quince, Reverend George Gilfillan, Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Weekly News, William McGonagall
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