Rhodri Lewis
@rhodrilewis.bsky.social
Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Shakespeare's Tragic Art out now from @princetonupress.bsky.social | Writing a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
The young David, per Vignon, looking uncannily like Helena Bonham-Carter
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The young David, per Vignon, looking uncannily like Helena Bonham-Carter
Lovely to see this in a sort of hard copy
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Lovely to see this in a sort of hard copy
The sheer energy that the Leavisites wasted in hating.
July 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The sheer energy that the Leavisites wasted in hating.
Good to have reason to be back in here for a day.
July 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Good to have reason to be back in here for a day.
Trying to figure out who this character from Kermode's autobiography was. "Paul H-F", undergrad at Liverpool in late 1930s. Ends up directing a molecular biology lab at Yale (or similar, I suppose, as Kermode may have been shielding). Have drawn a thoroughgoing blank. Thoughts?
June 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trying to figure out who this character from Kermode's autobiography was. "Paul H-F", undergrad at Liverpool in late 1930s. Ends up directing a molecular biology lab at Yale (or similar, I suppose, as Kermode may have been shielding). Have drawn a thoroughgoing blank. Thoughts?
Am amused by Kermode's response to being informed of E. H. Gombrich's opinion that a renaissance specialist he planned to hire at UCL was "not a scholar and never will be".
June 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Am amused by Kermode's response to being informed of E. H. Gombrich's opinion that a renaissance specialist he planned to hire at UCL was "not a scholar and never will be".
NYC looking good yesterday evening.
May 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NYC looking good yesterday evening.
Another excellent new book delivery
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Another excellent new book delivery
Looking forward to these.
May 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Looking forward to these.
Lovely to see this in hard copy, too
May 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Lovely to see this in hard copy, too
Had a really excellent time banging the Shakespearean tragic drum at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
May 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Had a really excellent time banging the Shakespearean tragic drum at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Bit of a dreich morning, but a good view to wake up to after a day or so on the plane.
May 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Bit of a dreich morning, but a good view to wake up to after a day or so on the plane.
Munich, as ever, doing Munich very well.
May 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Munich, as ever, doing Munich very well.
Good to see this in hard copy
May 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good to see this in hard copy
Excellent to see, courtesy of the excellent people at the special collections library of @brynmawrcollege.bsky.social, the original announcement for the lectures that became The Sense of an Ending. (Am impressed both by the Larkin and the 8.30pm start time.)
April 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Excellent to see, courtesy of the excellent people at the special collections library of @brynmawrcollege.bsky.social, the original announcement for the lectures that became The Sense of an Ending. (Am impressed both by the Larkin and the 8.30pm start time.)
Hugely looking forward to this tomorrow. Do come along to celebrate Shax's birthday if in the Philly area and at a loose end!
April 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hugely looking forward to this tomorrow. Do come along to celebrate Shax's birthday if in the Philly area and at a loose end!
In some unusual but excellent company at the RSA-SAA book fair…
March 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In some unusual but excellent company at the RSA-SAA book fair…
The prettiest stretch of the train ride from NYC to Boston
March 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The prettiest stretch of the train ride from NYC to Boston
Muriel Spark had a decent apartment
March 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Muriel Spark had a decent apartment
Hugely looking forward to this.
March 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hugely looking forward to this.
Excellent to hear @whitneytrettien.bsky.social on “Baconian Quacks” and the advent of telegraphy.
February 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Excellent to hear @whitneytrettien.bsky.social on “Baconian Quacks” and the advent of telegraphy.
A real thrill to put this collection back together. (I thought all but a handful of them had been lost by the movers when crossing the Atlantic 7 years ago. Found them in a box that I'd assumed was full of unused kitchen stuff.)
February 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A real thrill to put this collection back together. (I thought all but a handful of them had been lost by the movers when crossing the Atlantic 7 years ago. Found them in a box that I'd assumed was full of unused kitchen stuff.)
Not, I will confess, where I’d choose to be shelved … but never entirely displeasing to find yourself shelved at all.
February 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Not, I will confess, where I’d choose to be shelved … but never entirely displeasing to find yourself shelved at all.
Was a little worried that it would be cringeworthy, but this piece (an A.S. Byatt joke, of all things) from the NYT on 11 Feb 1991 lands several excellent hits.
February 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Was a little worried that it would be cringeworthy, but this piece (an A.S. Byatt joke, of all things) from the NYT on 11 Feb 1991 lands several excellent hits.