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Posted on January 5, 2019January 4, 2019

An amusing correction in the TLS letters page from 12 years ago

While looking for something entirely different, I came across this letter to the TLS by Tim Nau from January 5th 2007: Sir, -In a paragraph about saints of the Dark Ages…

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Posted on March 18, 2017August 30, 2018

Yeats on Kipling: “I dislike his works so much that I feel sure it must have something to teach me”

(edit 30th August 2018 – for more on the uneasy relationship between another poet and Yeats, see here.  For a TLS letter which also features Kipling (in a perhaps less than…

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Posted on August 11, 2016August 12, 2016

Nabokov and Epilepsy – my letter to the TLS

I have a Letter to the Editor in the current TLS responding to Galya Diment’s piece on Vladimir Nabokov and epilepsy. The letter is behind a paywall but you can see the much…

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