Tapestry | James Fenton
James Fenton
Hell Set to Music
I mentioned in a recent column Eric Griffiths' recommendation of an "incomparable" essay by Osip Mandelstam, "Conversation on Dante," which I was resolved soon to read.
Nature Boy
The ideal, for literary biography, is that the author should be able to address two audiences at once: the academic and the nonspecialist.
A Voice of his Own
I mentioned in a recent column Eric Griffiths' recommendation of an "incomparable" essay by Osip Mandelstam, "Conversation on Dante," which I was resolved soon to read.
Vina Divina
After her death in a Mexican earthquake, the aging pop singer Vina Apsara becomes a cult figure.
A poke in the eye with a poem
Of the leading Ulster poets - Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon - Longley is the only one still resident in Ulster.
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