In the final pages of The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald imagined ‘the
depths of despair into which those can be driven who, even after the end
of the working day, are ...
In ‘On the Circuit’, a poem about the circle of purgatory reserved for
touring poet-lecturers, W.H. Auden mentioned the moments of
unanticipated connection:
Literary biographer Claire Harman Charlotte Brontë‘s life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. She was raised motherless on remote ...