My good intentions of leaving novels for the period of the dissertation have not lasted long. Having to travel to London twice in the last two months, I simply needed a book. I was attracted by the title and the good reviews it received but I’m sincerely disappointed.
The idea is simply brilliant – it’s quite [...]
Archive for July, 2009
‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak
Posted in Fiction, tagged contemporary writing on 26 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To Marguerite [or to ...]
Posted in Poetry, tagged Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Victorians on 22 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew Arnold
YES: in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown.
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.
But when the moon their hollow lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And [...]
And death shall have no dominion
Posted in Poetry on 7 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dylan Thomas
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though [...]
