An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the lens of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the lens of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Now, Mother, What’s the Matter?
Only the monsters do not have troubled hearts.
Life is for troubled hearts. Art is for troubled
hearts. For my whole life, Hamlet has been
Two sonnets absorb with calm clarity a boy’s anguish at his mother’s loss
This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power
Words of stern moral advice to a besotted young man are delivered with a brisk and even sunny touch
A landscape of illusory peace is depicted just before the guns of battle reach it in the first world war
The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism
An emblem of medieval pilgrimage gains fresh resonance in a more recent time of plague
