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Penny Rimbaud peering out from behind the Crass logo I.   The Horse Hospital is a Grade II listed building in Bloomsbury, built by James Bu...

Most of their time, tigers pad and slouch in burning peace. Yet they also drink blood. [1]     I.    Although I wouldn't name it as on...

DHL Ultimate Hunger Support   (SA/2022)     D. H. Lawrence is particularly scornful of Walt Whitman's claim to be he who aches with amo...

Hello darkness, my old friend - by Niranjan Morkar dribble.com     I.    The three fundamental laws of logic - (i) the law of non-contradict...

Fitzcarraldo Editions (2020)  fitzcarraldoeditions.com     I.   Any work with the word hatred in the title is likely to catch my attention....

Lawrence's essay on Whitman in his Studies in Classic American Literature  (1923) is more piss-take than critical analysis. Lawr...

According to Lawrence, the mistake made by those who claim to love humanity lies in their moral insistence on the fact, rather than ...

Juan de Valverde de Hamusco:  La anatomia del corpo humano (1556) According to D. H. Lawrence, Whitman was the great Amer...

Two Irish poets pictured whilst on tour in America:  Oscar Wilde (1882) and Johnny Rotten (1978)  When the Sex Pistols set off on...

Ben Lerner is a very clever man: a poet, a novelist, and a professor of English. And so it's no real surprise to discover he...

  Photo by Kate T. Parker of her daughter, Ella, aged 9,  on the night before competing in her first triathlon. From Strong is...

The very lovely Bethany Leach: a young advocate of the  democracy of touch; see her blog     democracyoftouch.tumblr.com Amused...

Thomas Eakins: The Swimming Hole (1884-85) If the great American poet Walt Whitman set out to chronicle one subject above all othe...

  I have always been strongly attracted to what we might refer to as the hobo ethic, most beautifully set out in the songs of Harry M...