Lewis Roberts

I thought this was excellent

New article by me on Milton's prosody, and its reception in 19th-C scholarship. Arguing that the relationship between rule and deviation clouds distinctions of metrics as either material or ideal. Ends by suggesting there may be an ethical value therein.

muse.jhu.edu/article/1007163

A student, for the third essay of her degree, has given me an assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as a response to Hegel's problem of the violence of recognition.

These students are completely astonishing.

Sometimes I miss the small cities I spent most of my adulthood in, and then I remember London is the greatest city in the world. Spent the morning with Rossetti manuscripts in the British Library, then £5 martinis with a friend, then a watercolour class

Vice Chancellor declares herself speechless in the middle of a four-minute speech