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“... Interpretation of Literature’. This belittling tag, coined in a 1988 essay of the same name by Stephen Parrish, general editor of the monumental Cornell Wordsworth, reflected two more widespread beliefs in literary theory: that ‘language is prior to thought’ and that authorial intention is ‘not only elusive and illusory, but irrelevant’. In the ...”

“... of the poetic landscape. Auden and MacNeice, too, though the omission in both books of Stephen Spender suggests that he has slipped out of contention – either because his true worth has yet to be assessed, or because it finally has been. There are also some welcome defining presences. W.S. Graham is well represented with different poems in both ...”

“... pants, fleeces and anoraks. The majority are in their thirties and a lot of them sport the Grant Mitchell look. There are women officers too, who wear their hair short and are in the same jeans, puffa-jackets and fleeces as their male counterparts. These men and women, like all the other police officers I’ve encountered, exhibit certain core ...”

“... me lies; the lyric-writer for US and the author of ‘Tell me lies about Vietnam’ was Adrian Mitchell, one of my colleagues on the Black Dwarf. He also brought out a book of poems in 1968 with a quotation from a news report about Vietnam stretched across the top of each page: In front of us a curious figure was standing, a little crouched, legs ...”

“... say anything they can to provoke unwary victims, then delight in the outrage that follows. When Mitchell Henderson, a 12-year-old boy from Minnesota, killed himself in 2006, trolls descended on his MySpace page, where his friends and relatives were posting tributes. The trolls were especially taken with the fact that Henderson had lost his iPod days before ...”

“... battle for popular sympathy is renewed with spreadsheets and the rolling ‘data walls’ of Andy Mitchell, the CEO of the delivery organisation for Thames Tideway Tunnel. Multiple screens function like the crystal ball of Dr Dee. Teams are trained to ‘visualise’ problems before they happen. ‘We are determined to raise the bar in every way,’ ...”

“... savage does not feel pain as we do,’ judged the celebrated American physician Silas Weir Mitchell. This alleged phenomenon might be read positively (as indicative of truer or more honest humanity) or negatively (as a lamentable weakening of moral fibre). ‘That anybody should be in pain and not be immediately relieved – that sharp pain should ever ...”

“... social nuance, she would look at you somewhat pityingly before telling you that her friend Joseph Mitchell could have made poetry out of it. She hated the New York Review of Books with a vengeance, resenting its ‘assumption of power’ and its ‘critical faculties’, and she told me there was no real writing in it and I should stop associating ‘with ...”

“... jury found that detectives didn’t carry out checks that could have prevented the serial killer Stephen Port from murdering at least three of his victims. The victims’ families believe that this lack of care was motivated in part by homophobia – Port met his male targets on dating apps. Detectives also failed to take such basic steps as running his name ...”

“... first poet of international significance) may be checked against a long manuscript in the Mitchell Library at Sydney – by Richard Pennington. Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies did take the part of Etain in Rutland Boughton’s opera, The Immortal Hour in 1922, with Peter Shelving’s designs, and since she also acted in a play called Spring Tide which opened at ...”

“... Jeremy in December 1954, at the end of our first term, when the editor-designate of Isis, Adrian Mitchell, appointed me as the next term’s deputy news editor and Jeremy as one of his two Union reporters (the other being Christopher Driver). I knew him by reputation. There were people quite as clever as Jeremy, several of them his friends, but somehow word ...”

“... Kazuo Ishiguro, British in all but name, has not lived in Nagasaki since he was a toddler; David Mitchell left Hiroshima four years ago. There is a certain amount of unjustly neglected travel writing, such as the work of the late Alan Booth. But Japan has never attracted the attention of a Chatwin or a Naipaul, let alone fostered a Kipling, a Somerset ...”

“... as Eden’s spokesman at No 10 Downing Street in protest over Suez. These four selected Sir Derek Mitchell, a former Treasury senior official and now senior adviser to Lehman Brothers, the investment bankers. He came in as a rank outsider with his views or likely loyalty ties completely unknown. On the Tuesday after the Easter weekend, these five directors ...”

“... any of the band’s other songs. For a long time it was an obscure B-side – so obscure that when Stephen Malkmus, Pavement’s frontman, heard it playing in a bakery a few years ago, he didn’t even recognise it as one of his own. According to a fascinating article by the journalist Nate Rogers, ‘Harness Your Hopes’ started to become popular in ...”

“... It’s all because they wouldn’t let me play football.Oh dear. You sound like that poem by Stephen Spender, telling the world how scared he was of the rough boys who threw stones.Please don’t. I’d better shut up.You could have been a contender. My point is you did become a contender.In a way, yes. I’m still pretty good at football, except I’m a ...”