There is nothing quite so bitter as a full-scale argument about taste. Ancient or Modern? Conservationists or carbuncles? One hundred and fifty years ago it was pinnacles v pediments, Gothic v Classical.
This 'jaunty narrative raises fundamental questions about the role of popular history. Should this just be a matter of telling tales, as the general public often seems to think?'
@DrLRoach weighs up Charles Spencer's account of the White Ship Disaster.
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'It would be hard, after all, to name a better living parodist and pasticheur.'
Our October issue is out now, featuring Jeremy Treglown on the life and work of Tom Stoppard.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-long-road-to-leopoldstadt
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This 'jaunty narrative raises fundamental questions about the role of popular history. Should this just be a matter of telling tales, as the general public often seems to think?'
@DrLRoach weighs up Charles Spencer's account of the White Ship Disaster.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/wholl-take-the-helm