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“... seen as a first effort, a rough basis for the more sophisticated one that the translators were always intending to prepare. But this explanation has its own problems, not least in accounting for the surprisingly large number of copies of the literal version that survive, and de Hamel argues instead for a more political rationale for the two texts. The ...”

“... the Third Programme. It probably couldn’t have happened at any time except when it did. The war seemed to have shown that the public for music and books and culture generally had been thrillingly enlarged. The Forces had developed a keen appetite for education, cultural and civic, some of it pretty subversive, for the service vote is known to have had a ...”

“... person​ to annotate a poem by T.S. Eliot was T.S. Eliot. His notes on The Waste Land (1922) were composed partly so that his 433-line poem could be issued by his American publishers Boni & Liveright as a book, and partly, as he recalled in ‘The Frontiers of Criticism’ (1956), ‘with a view to spiking the guns of critics of my earlier poems who had ...”