Pugin's manifesto
Rosemary Hill
Subjective dread, self-dramatization and intimacy in Pugin's first work as an architect |
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Hugh Kingsmill, forgotten writer
Michael Holroyd
A resolute and solitary figure without a sustained or cohesive literary career, Hugh Kingsmill has also been unjustly neglected. |
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Patrick White reappraised
David Malouf
Variously lionized and considered unreadable, Patrick White was treated by Australia as a saintly, irascible old Lear, as well as the mad king's licensed Fool. |
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Bruges, Paris and the spectres of Symbolism
Patrick McGuinness
The central figure in the dead-city cult was the Belgian poet and novelist Georges Rodenbach. Bruges was his totemic city - described as a sort of coastal Miss Haversham. |
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Emma Lavinia Hardy: A retrospective diagnosis
Robert Alan Frizzell
The cause of Emma Hardy's death was given as "heart failure and impacted gallstones". But this was most likely a cover up. Had Thomas Hardy infected her with syphilis? |
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Books of the year
Alberto Manguel; Marina Warner; Paul Muldoon; Craig Raine; A. N. Wilson; Elaine Showalter
A selection from our books of the year special issue. |
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The double exposures of Ted Hughes
Craig Raine
An electric speaker, whether talking about T. S. Eliot or pig pheromones, Ted Hughes was also a master of metaphorical writing. |
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The shy, steely Ronald Firbank
Alan Hollinghurst
A quintissential aesthete, Ronald Firbank was also the author of some of the most brilliantly original fiction of the twentieth century. |
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Watt is the word
Derek Mahon
Samuel Beckett's verse, like his prose, is sui generis. Not inexpressive, as its author might have wished, but expressive of a rare vision. |
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From fairy stories to philosophy
Jonathan Rée
Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard seem to have little in common apart from their nationality. But the philosopher and the author of "fairy-tales for children" were acquaintances, and the former is perhaps more indebted to the latter than we think. |
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Saving writers' manuscripts for the nation
Andrew Motion
It is time, argues Andrew Motion, "to create a situation in which British writers feel their manuscripts are as valued and welcome in their native institutions as they are abroad". |
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Graham Greene, uneasy Catholic
Ian Thomson
Spanning over fifty years, Greene's relationship with the Tablet provided him with a forum for his works-in-progress and his frequently unorthodox religious views |
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