Widower's Tango

Maybe I should have saved those leftover dreams? Funny, but here’s that rainy day. Here’s that rainy day they told me about And I lau...

I turned 61 today - or yesterday. I live in the Far East, but my thoughts are somewhere in North America. A friend wished me a happy birt...

Listening to some considerably lesser filmmakers than Ingmar Bergman ridicule his film The Seventh Seal has compelled me to look at it aga...

This week I was reading a conversation in Forbes with Rupert Everett about Oscar Wilde. Everett has just directed and stars in The Hap...

Terry Eagleton is a Lancaster University professor of English literature. He is also an outspoken socialist. Normally, this shouldn't...

The qualities that distinguish the poetry of Philip Larkin (1922-1985) - accessibility both formal and syntactical, traditional meter and...

I read somewhere that A. E. Housman , Oxford scholar and author of the stubbornly popular poem cycle A Shropshire Lad, was a pallbearer at...