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The New

18th November 2018 Andrew Uncategorised

We all like new things.  The new gives us a temporary high.  Having plenty of new happen is good for us.  Without new, you shrink. 

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Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony

11th November 2018 Andrew Uncategorised

“A slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants”, is how Robert Schumann supposedly described this symphony (he didn’t).  The two giants are the Third and Fifth symphonies. The

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Four ideas from Keats

4th November 2018 Andrew Uncategorised

Keats gave us two priceless gifts: his poems and his letters.  The poems capture the texture of life in a way no else has been

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Emily Dickinson ‘Because I could not stop for Death’

28th October 2018 Andrew Uncategorised

First contact with Emily Dickinson: the skeletal look on the page, the compression of meaning, the haunting effect. A half-dozen of her poems were printed

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A taste of Baudelaire

14th October 2018 Andrew Uncategorised

Baudelaire perfectly expressed the horrors of life in mid 19thcentury Paris: the downsides of the industrial revolution.  He was the first truly modern poet. Before

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