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Eric Griffiths, 19 December 1985
A pause for thought in The Tempest:
Eric Griffiths
Eric Griffiths is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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The Case for Geoffrey Hill
4 April 1985
SIR: John Lucas writes like an intellectual skateboarder – the swerves are hair-raising. Thus, he wonders why anybody should refer to the OED on a matter of pronunciation (Letters, 5 December 1985), and supposes that such reference must assume that the dictionary records ‘how people do speak or how they should speak’. He then imputes to Martin Dodsworth (whom, incidentally, I did not call, and...
Pieces about Eric Griffiths in the LRB
Beastliness: Eric Griffiths
John Mullan, 23 May 2019
Quite a few academics in British universities are still called ‘lecturers’ even if plenty of humanities students seem to think lecturing is unnecessary. They can see the point of...
Can we conceive of Beatrice ‘snapping’ like a shrew? How not to do Dante
Helen Vendler, 1 September 2005
‘Dante in English’ is an anthology of English translations of passages from Dante (most of them from the Commedia); it also includes poetry in English by authors who have been...
Breathing on the British public
Danny Karlin, 31 August 1989
Nine years ago Herbert Tucker wrote an excellent first book, Browning’s Beginnings; like many first books it gave the impression of being a labour of love. Tucker’s second is a...
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