Charles Baudelaire

The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan , via Charles Baudelaire , T. S. Eliot

Not only class, but class and national ideology is under the microscope here. The idea of Englishness is much appealed to. Price admonishes Lisa (who prattles freely of art and Aristotle and Baudelaire , though...

From April to June 1932 Millay and Dillon were in Paris together. Dillon had just, in his turn, won the Pulitzer Prize, and had a Guggenheim fellowship to support him, modestly, for the sake of...

Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott , Baudelaire , Dumas , Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.

At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen...

NB wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future...

As a child, says MR , she lived much of the time in my imagination and in books. The bookcase her mother had had as a student, the local public library, and the local church...

She already felt the terrible misery of being so young and ignorant. Years later, when her art education had come to a halt for lack of money, she went to the local Public Library...

She had been interested in Catholicism for many years, and had allied her thinking with neo-Thomism, a reaching back to medieval thought which saw material world as a reflection of the immaterial reality of God...