A E Housman was superficially at least, an austere professional classical scholar producing definitive editions of Juvenal and Manilius. This unlikely figure was also a popular poet.

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Landscape Gardener and Poet

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Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Earnest

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Making Tax Digital

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Aleister Crowley: Mystic or charlatan?

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Mind and Machine Intelligence

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Michelene Wandor shortlisted for prestigious prize

Greenwich Exchange author

shortlisted for prestigious prize

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Andrew Keanie on Hartley Coleridge’s unpublished poem, ‘Windermere Lake’

In ‘Windermere Lake’, the immortal mind can be glimpsed in the melancholy contemplation of its ‘banishment’. Readers of Wordsworth are familiar – and none more familiar than Hartley – with the spiritual signposts amidst the actual topography of the Lake District.

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Romanticism

‘Never could the eye have beheld the sun, had not its own essence been soliform, neither can a soul not beautiful attain to an intuition of beauty.’

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Antigone and the Contemporary Novel

Is the person in the position of power always right?

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Antigone

In this acclaimed and ever present play – in October 2021 alone three new productions of Antigone were produced – issues that were presented to an ancient audience remain popular in the present.

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

In this week’s blog post, we turn to look at the beloved Christmas favourite of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.