W. B. Yeats’s “The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid” is a poem about turning older and being gifted with […]
Category Archive: Close Reading
Here’s one of the things keeping me up at night: how do we do our scholarly work when […]
“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is […]
Are we living in the age of the phallus? From Trump’s ever expanding phallic gestures to the number […]
In the heart of Brontë country in Yorkshire, an unexpected gathering: men, naked, reading Victorian novels to an audience […]
David Hollingshead: Hi Jane! I’m sorry to leave you in the lurch at the eleventh hour but unfortunately […]
Time hovers o’er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the Passages of Joy. June is upon – […]
You may remember the “Romans Go Home” scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. In the dead of […]