Fred Sebastian stand each other and grasp each other's viewpoint without having to make
sense or needing to be coherent.” Eventually they become like Ovid's Baucis and Philemon …

Fred Sebastian stand each other and grasp each other's viewpoint without having to make
sense or needing to be coherent.” Eventually they become like Ovid's Baucis and Philemon …

With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris
Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and …

Now that the elegiac dust is beginning to settle, perhaps we can step back and ask what he
meant to us. For a poet who made even sophisticated readers knit their brows, who never …

The late Iris Murdoch's dementia was one of those diabolical cosmic jokes, on the order of
Milton's going blind or Beethoven's growing deaf. You wonder why it couldn't have …

It is clear that Frederic Raphael is proud of the Classics scholarship he won to St John's
College, Cambridge in 1950. In spite of being best known as an Oscar-winning screenwriter …

JOHN BAYLEY, the critic, teacher and novelist, has written a trilogy about a husband faced
with the physical and mental disintegration of his wife from Alzheimer's disease." Elegy for …

GAYLE GREENE 110 the coming of capitalism, before taking on the Faust story. There is a
sense at the end of Lear that an age has passed—“we that are young/Shall never see so …

Picture this: Rembrandt is creating his famous painting of Aristotle contemplating the bust of
Homer. As soon as he paints an ear on Aristotle, Aristotle can hear. When he paints an eye …