Nigeness

 The other day I was startled to discover that I don't have a Yeats on my bedside bookshelves. I know I have at least one somewhere, but...

 As a blatant hypocrite, one who deplores Jeff Bezos and all his works while making frequent use of Amazon, I was cheered to see that the pe...

 On this day 160 years ago, William Butler Yeats was born. When I marked the sesquicentenary ten years ago, I wrote a little about his work...

 This blog can't let the death of the great Brian Wilson go wholly unmarked, so here are a couple of favourite tracks. First, this one, ...

 I spent much of the train journey to and fro Worthing reading Holbrook Jackson's The 1890s (a book I mentioned briefly here ). Jackson...

 I'm going to be in Worthing for the next few days. (It looks a bit different now...)

 John Everett Millais, one of the giants of Victorian art, was born on this day in 1829. A child prodigy and a formidably gifted painter, he...