This question was prompted by a couple of remarks I have read and heard recently, in very different contexts. My title might well be 'Why I Read?' but the omission of the personal gives a more consequential air. The first, and more important, of my sources came in a paper by Peter Cochran entitled Byron's …
Month: September 2010
The Romantic Exiles
I happened to espy E.H. Carr's book The Romantic Exiles (1933), which tells the story of the lives of certain 19thC Russian exiles, in my favourite second-hand bookshop in Gateway-of-Fleet, and was delighted to be able to buy it. My primary interest was in the private life of Alexander Herzen but the book turned out to be of much …
August Miscellany (2010)
So I return to produce the first monthly miscellany since February. It is my intention under my new regime that these miscellanies will actually be shorter and I will have more individual entries. Since my recovery on August 5th (as usual it was fairly sudden and I can therefore be specific) the rest of the …
Moving Toyshop 