Lewis Roberts

What a picture! Fond memories of our chatty cycle ride

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Very pleased to be leading the "Literature" course in Trinity's Humanities Residential next week. I'll be lecturing on Chaucer's rhymes, Plato's hatreds, Tennyson's genius, and Barrett Browning's polyglossia. Excited to meet some very bright young students, and to attempt wit:

I think it is an unacknowledgedly big problem when people take on editing projects to satisfy their own free time. So many wonderful, but B-list, authors remain without critical editions because someone has pridefully been doing it for three decades

This looks so wonderful - my students will love it!

I hadn't looked at Housman's letters for a while and I had forgotten what catty joy they are

YouTube video by Princeton University 2025 Commencement Address by Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber

A superb speech. Intelligent, brave, and true. youtu.be/qRbXY_bOemc?...

A compliment I’d say - I’d trust the crop-haired lesbians I know with my life

You’re amazing

Mine too! I couldn't believe it

Highlights from student essays this week: Rossetti as a reader of Bunyan's theology of repetition; postcolonial poetics in the Ossian poems; Aurora Leigh and cognition; and Paradise Lost quoted in the black liberation movement.

How lucky I am to teach such amazing people

I’m looking forward to reading this! I’ve just written a short thing on Herbert and Rossetti’s enjambments

There is a colossal Easter egg hunt going on in our neighbourhood, and the streets are filled with half elated children, and half sobbing children. It is quite the sight

Astonished and deeply moved by the Grayson Perry exhibition at the Wallace Collection. Rarely, if ever, have I felt in the presence of genius at a contemporary art exhibition - Grayson Perry is a total wizard, genius, and a serious force for good in our fragile world

Yes! This is precisely the sort of thing I’m thinking about

Does anyone know anything about the late-Victorian periodical 'The Quarto'? Could anyone point me in the direction of who might?

I have spent the afternoon trying to work out exactly what the word "or" means. You'd think doing my third degree in English I'd have worked that out by now

"Sartre's approach prevents him from recognising the hell he is rebelling against."

- Adorno, 'Commitment'

Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

This is one of the most remarkable things I have read in a long time www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Aurora Leigh on a Sunday evening:

poets should
Exert a double vision; should have eyes
To see near things as comprehensively
As if afar they took their point of sight,
And distant things as intimately deep
As if they touched them.

Just received a menu for a conference dinner in Paris which must be directly translated from from French because the first item is "Perfect egg"

Writing about Felicia Hemans today, in relation to the somewhat ignored feminist theory of Catherine Clément. Gripping stuff