Since January this column has featured poets from the British Renaissance to Colonial America. This month I look at the stark differences between the poetry of the Shakespearean 1600s and the ...

“No one really knows what happens now: the collective imagination leads to dark places.” The International New York Times, June 25-26 2016 Dublin. By voting for Brexit the English and Welsh have ...

Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related toartistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legalscholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the ...

Historians of the Enlightenment are recovering their nerve. Until recently, it seemed that most of them had lost it in the face of the postmodern critique of the "Enlightenment project." The critique ...

A central tenet of the current Eurosceptic case resides in the contrast between English pragmatists, blessed with an instinctive distrust of the systems concocted by philosophers, and dreamy ...