Lady Godiva and Me

"You're not going out trudging fields with that machine of yours are you?" "One day I'll find something really impres...

An African Beowulf: There's a trailer here and a discussion of the sadly predictable response in some circles here With any adaptation t...

Questions for Quiver as a way of answering why I think it doesn't work. (WHich I will try and answer later) 1) what is the narrator’s n...

One of the criticisms levelled against Lady G was that sections of the sequence were "unconvincing". Recently I read a review of ...

Abelard. As a kind of side track to the FIlm conversation. ( I should confess I find him fascinating. The relationship with Heloise I always...

My thanks to Linda M. Davies for pointing out that both the story of Abelard and Heloise and "The Song of Roland" have been filme...

This is from Johnson's "Lives of the Most Eminent English poets with Observations on their Poetry". Like Hazlitt's "...