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“... Vickers belongs more with the rationalists than with those tragedians whose company he desired. Terence Cave, on the other hand, writes like an artist. His mind is subtler than Vickers’s, his erudition just as extensive. When Greek formal rhetoric began, Gorgias wrote at the end of his Helen: ‘So I by speech, have removed infamy from a ...”

“... imagined experience. ‘As if’ is wishful and, sometimes, wistful, but it is a hope. Terence Cave’s recent book Thinking with Literature argues powerfully that literature and storytelling are capacities of intellect and memory: Human cognition is alert, attentive, responsive. Above all, it is imaginative: it can think beyond the ...”

“... and Oxford, takes on something of an epic air, almost at one with the path from Caliban’s cave to Prospero’s study. One advantage of being on the periphery is that you know where the centre is. ‘I was an 18-year-old working-class Catholic, as certain as a speak-your-weight machine and as ignorant as a fish,’ Terry Eagleton says, contrasting ...”

“... a visit to Vendaland, he writes of ‘witch-doctors’ and ‘voodoo’: As we entered the cave [of the witch-doctor] a strange terror seized me. The interior was spookily dark ... an old woman led us through – the way she looked and walked reminded me of Gagool in the movie King Solomon’s Mines ... in one far corner, alongside a font bubbling an ...”

“... names, including MacNeice, Dillon, Cleverdon and Bridson, and new ones like W. R. Rodgers, Terence Tiller, R. D. Smith and Rayner Heppenstall. MacNeice was henceforth one of a group of literary men whose social life revolved around certain pubs in Soho, Fitzrovia or the immediate environs of Broadcasting House. Dylan Thomas was much in use as an actor ...”

“... gospel. She dies and is buried there; some accounts claim her tomb stood at the entrance to the Cave of the Seven Sleepers, which also appears in the Quran. In Not Dead but Sleeping, Anna Della Subin reflects on this widespread myth and the role of the sleepers’ dog, often illustrated in Arabic manuscripts.Jacopus recounts the legend of Mary Magdalene’s ...”

“... buildings in Barcelona they used Gothic and Romanesque references, spiky shapes, cave-like entrances, floral motifs in wrought iron, coloured glass or ceramic tiles, ornate sculpture, conveying both craft and opulence. They were intensely political buildings, and both Domènech i Montaner and Puig i Cadafalch became leading politicians ...”

“... me) named Henry.’ Housman originally planned to publish A Shropshire Lad anonymously as Poems by Terence Hearsay, and ‘Terence’ (after his exilic namesake, the Latin playwright brought to Rome as a slave) is one of many who trudge this landscape – locals and rustics but also exotics like Lot’s wife, who looked ...”