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3 Mar 2024

A Blast From the Past

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Wyndham Lewis photographed by George Charles Beresford in 1913 Front cover of the first edition of his Vorticist magazine Blast (1914)   &q...
15 May 2022

Notes on Crosby and Crane: Pin-Up Boys of the Lost Generation

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Harry Crosby (1898-1929) and Hart Crane (1899-1932)   La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.     I.    The initials HC mean diffe...
7 Feb 2021

Lobster Variations (I - IV)

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Nobuyuki Shimamura: Fantasy Lobster (2013) Hoki Museum Collection, Chiba, Japan    I.   Such is my fascination with lobsters at the moment ...
5 Feb 2018

In Memory of Joris-Karl Huysmans (and His Bejewelled Tortoise)

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Caricature of J-K Huysmans (1885) To be honest, I increasingly find that I have to be in a very particular frame of mind to read 19t...
27 Aug 2017

On the Joy of Metaphysical Conceit (With Reference to John Donne's 'The Flea')

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John Donne (1572-1631): The Flea   (First published posthumously in 1633)   Whilst it's true that I don't like conceite...
23 Mar 2017

Of Spiders and Flies (Notes on the Lawrence-Eliot Relationship)

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D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot  by David Levine The relationship between D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot was never going to be any...
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18 Apr 2016

April is the Cruelest Month

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Despite the horror of the night before, in the morning the birds still sang, the flowers still opened and the sun continued t...