by Eamonn Boylan | Feb 14, 2014 | Essays
‘Drip, drip, drip’. A lead article in The Guardian, 15 February 2014, on the topical subject of rain in literature.
by Eamonn Boylan | Sep 1, 2013 | Essays
Catalogue essay for A Crisis of Brilliance at Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2013. “Lily Briscoe, the painter in To the Lighthouse, leaves a picture half-done when she goes away. She knows how she wants to finish it, but history interrupts … Stanley Spencer left...
by Eamonn Boylan | Feb 2, 2013 | Essays
I chose William Cowper as ‘My Hero’ in the Guardian, 2 February 2013. In my view we should hear a lot more about this great poet of nature, faith, and homeliness. It’s well worth a visit to his house at Olney, where you can see Cowper’s summerhouse and stockings as...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2012 | Essays
Toller Fratrum by Judith Stainton (Little Toller Books, 2012) tells the history of a Dorset parish which was once home to the Knights Templar. Beautifully produced by Little Toller Books (a small publishing house which has done much to revive interest in the classics...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2012 | Essays
Jonathan Newdick’s Out of Time? is the culmination of a project in which Newdick studied the barns, stables and outhouses to be found within a few miles of his home in Petworth, Sussex. The book reproduces his exquisitely crafted, stylish and sometimes witty...
