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“... but it was as a critic whose wit was informed by devastating common sense that Jarrell made his mark. Or perhaps it was the wit that devastated. Of William Carlos Williams he said that ‘even his good critical remarks sound as if they had been made by Henry Ford’; of Edith Sitwell’s then fashionable poems that they ‘sound as if Madame Blavatsky had ...”

“... it. This is why she was so reluctant to enter the ERM at all – let alone at the rate against the mark which was adopted – since the principal victims of such a rate were an essential part of her coalition: first-time house-buyers. And it is a measure of her real authority within the Conservative Party that she was forced to accept it. Majorism, for better ...”

“... poems, appeared posthumously). The Hardyan blend of stamina, abundance and variety is Dennis Taylor’s starting-point in Hardy’s Metres and Victorian Prosody: not only was his career ‘longer than that of any other Victorian poet, indeed any English poet’, but ‘he wrote poems in more metrical forms than any other major English poet, indeed ...”

“... as women, paints a picture of their role very similar to that in the writings of Jane and Anne Taylor, Congregationalist in faith. Young girls, Charlotte Yonge thought, should not be able to reserve any time for their own private occupations, except that on Sunday afternoons they should be able to prepare for the Sunday school which they would hold the ...”

“... mean, selfish, and thinks only of herself.’ According to Hadda, this isn’t so far off the mark. The family often noted that both Singer and his wife were frugal and ungenerous. On the other hand, for the first 21 years of their marriage, Alma supported them both, selling dresses at Arnold Constable, Macy’s and Lord & ...”

“... are required there. But the historical fact is sure; and in this catastrophe it will be found to mark the beginning of wisdom about whatever good may yet be able to prevail: the Bosnian Republic declared after 1945 by the Partisan movement and army of liberation – a name which meant exactly what it said – made peace in this war-pestered country and kept ...”

“... in with milkshakes; Susan Bottomley cuddling a stuffed camel; Viva showing off her knickers; Taylor Mead sticking out his tongue in Max’s Kansas City; Lou Reed checking his buttonhole at John Cale’s wedding. One big silvery moment in the history of Pop Art, or the history of Nothing. For all Warhol’s love of crazy girls in their posh frocks, and ...”

“... Peter’s. The fate of the Romanov obelisk in Moscow’s Alexander Garden, first put up in 1914 to mark the tercentenary of the dynasty, is illustrative. Bolsheviks re-engraved the obelisk with More’s name and other mooted harbingers of communism. In 2013, 99 years after it was put up, the Russian Ministry of Culture dismantled and completely refurbished ...”

“... of Mind (‘knowing, learning, discovering’ etc). The narrator of Glyph (1999) has yet to mark his first birthday but can already outsmart his poststructuralist father. Philosophers of language have been frequent subjects of his onomastic play (‘afrege’, ‘Grice-told’, ‘eQuine’); the name Alfred North Whitehead is deemed ...”

“... if I were you I should.” ’ Vera was equally keen for her brother to join up and Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge believe that her reliance on what they describe as a ‘sentimentalised conception’ of war affected her relationship with Roland Leighton, who was sent to the Front in March 1915. Leighton had claimed that his purpose in fighting was ‘the ...”

“... little rooms with a sink and a toilet’ in the words of the South African journalist Mark Gevisser in his memoir Lost and Found in Johannesburg.2 No shared walls between white master and black servant, above all no shared ablution facilities across racial lines, which suggests that, for apartheid, it is above all the races’ body fluids and ...”

“... almost any of the narrative accounts published during the 1950s and 1960s and familiar signposts mark the path to national fulfilment. Convict origins, free settlement, self-government, gold, wool, federation, war, depression, war, immigration, industrialisation, prosperity. Each stage of the journey leads inexorably towards a still-unattained destination, a ...”

“... Centenary Pessoa agree – Borges, Steiner, Josipovici, Hollander, Cyril Connolly, Roman Jakobson, Mark Strand – it is a compounding of Pessoa’s mystery that he has been anonymous for so long in Anglo-American culture. A canon that includes Pessoa seems infinitely less claustrophobic and bossy. There is, Pessoa writes in The Book of Disquietude, ‘no ...”

“... even some sections of the rural population. From 1846 until the 1885 election (the ‘high water mark of electoral Cobdenism’), Free Trade – together with its concomitants, the gold standard, retrenchment and a balanced fiscal system – was virtually a ‘secular religion’, accepted at all levels of society and almost without question. This emphasis ...”

“... that we can hear differences which our received methods of scansional notation are too crude to mark. Ben Jonson saw his 1616 Folio through the press, bestowing unprecedented care even on accidentals. In 19th-century modernised texts his poem ‘To Heaven’ begins ‘Good and great God,’ or even ‘Good and great God!’ Within the poem the goodness of ...”