What are the best opening lines in all of English verse? There are many contenders here, so whittling them down to a shortlist of the ten greatest and most famous opening lines of poetry didn’t exactly prove an easy task. Below, we quote the opening lines, but if you click […]
Choosing the right poem for a funeral can be a difficult task. How can you find the best poem to strike the right note at the funeral of a loved one, a close friend or member of the family? Below, we introduce ten of the most popular poems to be […]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys Jack Vance’s inventive quartet of picaresque fantasy novels I’ll admit that Tales of Dying Earth, the fat bumper edition of Jack Vance’s novels set on an Earth whose sun is about to go out forever, sat on my […]