July 5, 2013
Tags: A Defence of Poetry, Adonais, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Quilter, To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an intense, wordy young man. As I plowed through the Shelley selections in the Norton Anthology, I wondered why he was given so much more space than the other romantic poets. Then I did a calculation (can you tell I am wearying of the Romantics?) and found that Byron, Coleridge, and Read the Rest…
September 15, 2012
Tags: Celtic Britain, Isaac Asimov, Milford Haven, Pelican Shakespeare, Roger Quilter
There are women’s names in only three of Shakespeare’s titles: Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Troilus and Cressida. I think this play should be called Imogen. Cymbeline, the king is a dolt whereas his daughter Imogen shimmers with courage, imagination and integrity. It’s a long play which tries to encompass the doings of Read the Rest…
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