Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • Derek Walcott • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • William Carlos Williams • William Wordworth • William Butler Yeats POETRY/AMTHOLOGY

Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • Derek Walcott • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • William Carlos Williams • William Wordworth • William Butler Yeats POETRY/AMTHOLOGY

Sappho • Anne Sexton • William Shakespeare • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Wistawa Szyffiborska • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • Derek Walcott • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • William Carlos Williams • William Wordworth • William Butler Yeats POETRY/AMTHOLOGY

t events from 102. all available to watch on our website. Clive James, Don Paterson, Andrew Motion and Wendy Cope read their own works and poems by Tennyson, Shakespeare, Louis MacNeice and Edward Thomas at our poetry evening. American atheist Sam Harris enthrals a sell-out audience at Kensington Town H

to compose a few things at the house at Mina Saud with a piano | had bought in Kuwait. They included an a cappella (unaccompanied) choral setting of Tennyson’s “All Along the Valley”, and something to which I later fit Emily Dickenson’s poem “Beauty Crowds Me” in my song cycle “The White Election”. The com

poets in my pantheon begin with Keats and Masefield. I haven’t found a clear choice for third. There are awesome things in Milton, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Emily, Houseman, Robinson, Dowson, Yeats and others. Shakespeare, like Mozart, doesn’t figure in the center of the picture. I take him as the grea

of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the world at the time. *° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878). 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016890 search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for

of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor: Consider, say, ancient Athens versus the rest of the world at the time. *° Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Zhe Revenge (1878). 87 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016307 search exhaustively. Every improvement in chess-playing Als, between Alan Turing’s first design for