1993
A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-Poets Killed in France and Flanders
Introduction The Soldier-Poets in Chronological Order of their Death
May the Lord in His mercy be kind the Belfast
To arrive where we started Some not always accurate nor appropriate clues I read the news today Oh Boy Three women Vicky Murray Rose Murphy Doreen Prescott To try and explain some of it for you Father Michael Brown Three men Pat Taylor Joe Maloney Sean Kelly To do justly, to love mercy, and to …
Venice
Landfall The People Islanders The Venetian Way Strong Men The Truth Not to Everyone On Women Minor Venetians Pageantries and Panaceas ‘Poi Cristiani’ Minorities Melacholia The City Ex-Island ‘Streets Full of Water’ Stones of Venice City Services Age The Bestiary Arabesques The Seasons New on the Rialto Curiosities To the Prodigies Purposes The Lagoon Seventh …
It Never Snows in September
The French Odyssey Stand and Fight All Quiet on the Western Front Portrait of the German Solider in Holland, September 1944 The Landings Drive into the Teeth Smashing through the Crust March! Follow the Sounds of Shooting Arnhem. The Pendulum Swings Scraping the Barrel Take the Arnhem Bridge ‘Schwerpunkt’ is South! The Impact on German …
The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden
Everything that Counts Is Well Veiled: Poems The Curative Power of Love: On This Island Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Another Time A Sort of Practical Holiday: Letter to Lord Byron A Civitas of Sound: New Year Letter God Will Cheat No One: For the Time Being Amor Loci: Nones In Solitude, for Company: The Shield of Achilles The Hidden Law
With One Look
“with contributions by Amy Powers”
Prefaces to Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
Introduction Richard Eyre Introduction Harley Granville Barker The Study and the Stage Shakespeare’s Stagecraft The Convention of Place The Speaking of the Verse The Boy-Actress The Soliloquy Costume The Integrity of the Text The Merchant of Venice The construction of the play The Problem of ‘Double Time’ The True Problem Shakespeare’s Venice The Characters, and …
Prefaces to Shakespeare: Coriolanus
Introduction Richard Eyre Introduction Harley Granville Barker The Study and the Stage Shakespeare’s Stagecraft The Convention of Place The Speaking of the Verse The Boy-Actress The Soliloquy Costume The Integrity of the Text Coriolanus The Characters Caius Marcius Volumnia Aufidius Menenius The Tribunes The Actions of the Play The Volscians Volumnia and Virgilia The War …
Prefaces to Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
Introduction Richard Eyre Introduction Harley Granville Barker The Study and the Stage Shakespeare’s Stagecraft The Convention of Place The Speaking of the Verse The Boy-Actress The Soliloquy Costume The Integrity of the Text Antony and Cleopatra The Play’s Construction The Main Problem and Some Minor Ones A Question of Act-Division A DIgression, mainly upon the …