A Clerk of Oxford

Although this is only the first Sunday of Advent, Oxford has all its Christmas events and carol services this week. This is fun, but also a ...

I wish it were possible to be an academic without having to talk to other academics. You may not know it, but that’s a shocking confession. ...

I heard this on Radio 3's superb 'Words and Music' this week, and didn't think much about it except that it had some attract...

I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky, And smelt the sea, and earth, and the warm clover, And heard the waves, and the seagull's...

Apart from the occasional excitement about a new movie adaptation of Beowulf - each one less accurate and more cringeworthy than the last!...

A Line-Storm Song Robert Frost The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift. The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones...

I love Thomas Hardy's novels, and have a more complicated relationship with his poetry - but there are several of his poems I can't ...