Lady Godiva and Me

I’ve been comparing Bunting’s Firdosi with Davis’s Ferdowsi.   This is not about ‘accuracy ‘or ‘faithfulness’, just about differen...

One of the gains of “Literary theory” over the past fifty years has been the fact that it’s now easier to talk about the contingen...

Pound fascinates me, probably for the wrong reasons. It’s as if an outsider gate crashed the emperor’s parade, convinced a ...

In her readable (and impressive) 'Graven with images’ Nicola Shulman gives a biography not of Sir Thomas Wyatt, but of his poems.   Sh...

So I’ve already moaned about the pre-publicity for The Sunlit Zone, by Lisa Jacobson. T hree meaningless statements, which have now morp...

Reading the furor Pound’s early translations caused it’s easy to be pulled up short by the brutality of   the last paragraph in Wi...

The Background Bunting told the story of how he had become interested in Persian poetry several times, but the version which in...