'Like many a subsequent empire, Rome had a highly ambivalent relationship with the outsiders it needed to fuel its commerce, stock its slave markets and man its armies.'

@PParkerAuthor on the rise and fall of Alaric the Goth.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-barbarian-at-the-gate @douglasboin

'Of all modern English poets, Larkin is perhaps the one with whom most readers feel some imaginative affinity, a sense of having lived in the same world, with the same streets, the same unvoiced longings and anxieties.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/hull-revisited