Plus Ozempic, the Enlightenment and Tony Judt
Yet another rich newsletter - something to savour and digest over the weekend rather than try and scoff it all in one go.
thanks for reading!
I fear we may now be entering a period where Sassoon and Owen are the poets we have to turn to…
Lamia is really underrated in my opinion. It has the rainbow unweaving imagery here. And to me, it explores the idea of multiple truths.
Me too. I love it. Was reading it last week. Thought these lines were so atmospheric:
As men talk in a dream, so Corinth all,
Throughout her palaces imperial,
And all her populous streets and temples lewd,
Mutter'd, like tempest in the distance brew'd,
To the wide-spreaded night above her towers.
Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours,
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white,
Companion'd or alone; while many a light
Flared, here and there, from wealthy festivals,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Or found them cluster'd in the corniced shade
Of some arch'd temple door, or dusky colonnade.
Good essays: another of Tony Judt's books, 'The Memory Chalet', is superb. Very moving, 'written' in the most desperate of situations as he was dying.
Yes I must read that - thank you for the recommendation!
Very enjoyable read, thank you! On good essays, both of these may be too obvious, but the basic writings of Bertrand Russell has some real gems of essays, and Keynes's essays in biography has some real nice writing.
Hi, don't know if that's relevant, but wondering now would you judge the quality of the prose here
https://open.substack.com/pub/letterspurloined/p/a-second-stack-of-purloined-imaginary?r=4ghy64&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
James, thank you - another gem! I’ll carry those Wordsworth lines…
I was fortunate enough to encounter the Romantic poets with Peter Malekin. This is a wonderful collection: https://brill.com/display/title/39182?language=en
Yet another rich newsletter - something to savour and digest over the weekend rather than try and scoff it all in one go.
thanks for reading!
I fear we may now be entering a period where Sassoon and Owen are the poets we have to turn to…
Lamia is really underrated in my opinion. It has the rainbow unweaving imagery here. And to me, it explores the idea of multiple truths.
Me too. I love it. Was reading it last week. Thought these lines were so atmospheric:
As men talk in a dream, so Corinth all,
Throughout her palaces imperial,
And all her populous streets and temples lewd,
Mutter'd, like tempest in the distance brew'd,
To the wide-spreaded night above her towers.
Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours,
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white,
Companion'd or alone; while many a light
Flared, here and there, from wealthy festivals,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Or found them cluster'd in the corniced shade
Of some arch'd temple door, or dusky colonnade.
Good essays: another of Tony Judt's books, 'The Memory Chalet', is superb. Very moving, 'written' in the most desperate of situations as he was dying.
Yes I must read that - thank you for the recommendation!
Very enjoyable read, thank you! On good essays, both of these may be too obvious, but the basic writings of Bertrand Russell has some real gems of essays, and Keynes's essays in biography has some real nice writing.
Hi, don't know if that's relevant, but wondering now would you judge the quality of the prose here
https://open.substack.com/pub/letterspurloined/p/a-second-stack-of-purloined-imaginary?r=4ghy64&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
James, thank you - another gem! I’ll carry those Wordsworth lines…
I was fortunate enough to encounter the Romantic poets with Peter Malekin. This is a wonderful collection: https://brill.com/display/title/39182?language=en