And it is also creative, this mad
Restlessness of men.
I shudder down their cities;
They build them up again.

Alexandre Dumas’s Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844) first introduces us to d’Artagnan, a young man up from the…

About suffering they were often wrong,
the Old Masters: distracted by wealth and rank,
as if pain only matters when it…

Midniht wæs ond ful dreoriġ, hwīl biþoht-mi, wac ond weriġ,
Uppan monig an ascung wyrdig boc of lār forgoten eall…

There are, it seems, three theories as to the meaning of the name ‘Hamlet’.

[Also in this very Notebook: The Bride of Lammermoor (1819); A Legend of Montrose (1819); Kenilworth…

Arnold, writing to his best friend Arthur Hugh Clough, concerning the situation in France: the…