I agree, unless you write a monograph so wrong and arguable that is eternally discussed, i.e. Bloom, de Man

Thank you Rebecca this is so kind!

I am embarrassingly obsessed with this track

All of this marks a great debt I owe to my supervisor, my friends, and colleagues who helped to make it happen. Lord knows it takes a village to make a PhD.

I have also recently begun a new job as Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. I have very much enjoyed running various outreach activities over the summer, and I am greatly looking forward to the start of term.

You’re right, posting about politics (especially if you’re supporting the left) is a fool’s errand. I’ll delete it

Yes they’re essentially crap poetry aren’t they. What Hopkins called “Parnassian”: when Wordsworth was *doing Wordsworth*. They’re dedicated to his brother Christopher who was a famously dowdy and conservative classicist. Envious of you up there

Aha! One of the last sections of my thesis was on these sonnets. The series seems to have been so important to WW

What a picture! Fond memories of our chatty cycle ride

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This looks so wonderful - my students will love it!

A compliment I’d say - I’d trust the crop-haired lesbians I know with my life

You’re amazing

Mine too! I couldn't believe it

I’m looking forward to reading this! I’ve just written a short thing on Herbert and Rossetti’s enjambments