Catherine Eisner
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Auden
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Saturday, 19 July 2025
A Very British Disorder: Finishing School for Versifiers (Part 8)
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A late 20th Century survey suggested 8 per cent of the UK adult population had recently written a poem in some manner (of which two-thirds w...
Monday, 25 January 2016
Satirical and satyrical, extramural and intramural studies: Alexis Lykiard’s ‘Schooled For Life’.
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One’s first impulse on reading Alexis Lykiard’s latest verse collection, Schooled For Life , is to adapt Wilhelm Busch’s famous dictum Ist...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Lure of the List: Doomed Excavations of the Ur-Text and Other Futilities (Palimpsestic Texts Part 1)
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I studied the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins for GCE A Level Eng Lit, and I still refer to his On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialo...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
A solitary truck ... euphonious assonance.
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Talking of poetasters. I should note frankly that memories of my youthful experiences when working on an academic publisher’s poetry list we...
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