@johnhaffenden

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield. Editor of the Letters of T. S. Eliot.

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Joined February 2014
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Evan Kindley@evankindleyOct 24
This is an interesting point, from @kunktation's review of the new Cormac McCarthy bio. Who will be the first literary biographer to make extensive use of social media and text messages?
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"[Hughes] cast horoscopes for most of his life. A notebook of his now held at the British Library holds his astrological charts for ... T. S. Eliot ..." Plath's Fascination With the Occult Included a Homemade Ouija Board - Mental Floss - goo.gl/alerts/DMFV3t #GoogleAlerts

Sylvia Plath’s Fascination With the Occult Included a Homemade Ouija Board

Back in the late 1950s, Sylvia Plath and her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, had a regular guest at their table—a spirit they called Pan—and they reached him the

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Hermione Lee: Biography is a dying art prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…

Hermione Lee: Biography is a dying art

When little is private, what secrets remain for biographers to unveil?

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Inside the Friends of Friendless Churches ft.com/content/da4ca19f-61b2… via @ft

Inside the Friends of Friendless Churches

The charity is helping restore ancient religious sites across England and Wales

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Sally Rooney and the problem of self-censorship prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…

Sally Rooney and the problem of self-censorship

Proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has had a chilling effect

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I feel completely fantastic after two years sober, says 'lucky' Andrew Lloyd Webber - goo.gl/alerts/gqAhtR #GoogleAlerts

I feel fantastic after two years sober, says Andrew Lloyd Webber

In a wide-ranging interview with The Independent editor-in-chief Geordie Greig, the world’s most famous musical composer talks about alcoholism, the death of his son, his time in the House of Lords...

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Production: Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (Orange Tree Theatre in St John the Divine . - goo.gl/alerts/zEE1jd #GoogleAlerts

Production: Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (Orange Tree Theatre in St John the Divine,...

Peter Graystone sees David Suchet as St Thomas Becket in T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

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Production: Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (Orange Tree Theatre in St John the Divine,...

Peter Graystone sees David Suchet as St Thomas Becket in T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

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The Imperial, Bloomsbury: a modernist landmark brought bang up to date - Financial Times - goo.gl/alerts/sk48Bg #GoogleAlerts

The Imperial, Bloomsbury: a modernist landmark brought bang up to date

Key Notes | Derided by critics when it opened in 1970, the hotel has emerged from a major renovation. Has its moment finally arrived?

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David Suchet gives a brilliantly nuanced performance in Murder in the Cathedral artshub.co.uk/news/reviews/d…

David Suchet gives a brilliantly nuanced performance in Murder in the Cathedral

Evocative staging and haunting choral music make this a masterful revival of TS Eliot’s moving verse drama.

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Murder in the Cathedral review — David Suchet makes every word count - The Times - goo.gl/alerts/gSisei #GoogleAlerts

Murder in the Cathedral review — David Suchet makes every word count

The Poirot actor plays the ill-fated archbishop in TS Eliot’s earnest verse drama about the death of Thomas Becket, inventively staged by Tom Littler

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"Murder in the Cathedral is beautiful. (T.S. Eliot writes good verse, who knew?) It’s wonderfully lyrical and the imagery is evocative..." Murder in the Cathedral at St John the Divine Church via @@theatre_weekly theatreweekly.com/review-mur…

Review: Murder in the Cathedral at St John the Divine Church - Theatre Weekly

Murder in the Cathedral at St John the Divine Church Review: "Littler's Murder in the Cathedral takes an already beautiful text and then

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Murder in the Cathedral: David Suchet is spellbinding - Evening Standard - goo.gl/alerts/bQaNJx #GoogleAlerts

Murder in the Cathedral: David Suchet is spellbinding

The Poirot star excels in this revival of T.S. Eliot’s drama about Thomas Becket at the Orange Tree theatre

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🎭 ✨REVIEW✨🎭 T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral is revived in a new production by @OrangeTreeThtr at St John the Divine Church in Richmond. "Murder in the Cathedral isn't an easy play, but this production gives it plenty of life." 📷 Marc Brenner westendbestfriend.co.uk/news…
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Prof Sara Lodge@LearNonsenseOct 19
Remembering my dear colleague & friend, the poet Douglas Dunn, who died on Friday. One of the greats. Colourful, gruff & very kind. Though he was v private, his poetry ought to be everywhere in Scotland’s public places.
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Douglas Dunn obituary

Poet and writer whose collection Elegies channelled grief into exquisite poetry and won the Whitbread book of the year

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Does anyone have knowledge of - access to - a poem by Sydney Goodsir Smith entitled "The Hallowe'en", please?
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Douglas Dunn obituary: Scottish poet and academic - The Times - goo.gl/alerts/SLjY7P #GoogleAlerts

Douglas Dunn obituary: Scottish poet and academic

Friend and mentee of Philip Larkin who won the Whitbread book of the year award in 1985 for his collection Elegies dies aged 84

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John Haffenden retweeted
David Taylor@djtaylorwriterOct 17
Sorry to hear of Douglas Dunn’s death. Terry Street, about 1960s Hull, full of terrific reportage: ‘There are other worlds. There are other laws.’
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Grateful for a great haul of 1st editions today, all from Collinge & Clark in Bloomsbury, London. The Robert Frost has an intro by Robert Graves. The Pursuit, by P. P. Graves, is one of the first long poems brought by T. S. Eliot to the new house of Faber & Faber in Sept. 1930.
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