by Eamonn Boylan | Oct 5, 2023 | Essays
A chapter in The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger, ed. Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith, Bloomsbury, 2023 “…Chaucer doesn’t seem to have been fussed about getting his pilgrims to Canterbury; he left off his book and left them all still on the road, walking...
by Eamonn Boylan | Apr 3, 2023 | Essays
An essay in What Is It That Will Last? The Land and Tidal Art of Julie Brook, Lund Humphries, 2023. https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/what-is-it-that-will-last “…She gets as close as possible to living with, even living in, the materials she wants to...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jan 1, 2023 | Essays
Birmingham.ac.uk, January 2023 “…Presents were given at New Year in early modern England, a custom that continued until 25 December became the firm focus for Victorian celebrations. New Year poems were often composed as gifts, especially to patrons:...
by Eamonn Boylan | Dec 1, 2022 | Essays
A History of English Georgic Writing, ed. Paddy Bullard, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 57-78. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-english-georgic-writing/1477D3CFB62E4DC1044D6FBF50B65931 “…In the Georgics things can ‘turn’ unexpectedly...
by Eamonn Boylan | Oct 10, 2022 | Essays
Revisiting Modern British Art, ed. Jo Baring, Lund Humphries/Ingram Collection, 2022, pp. 25-34. Revisiting Modern British Art “…’Ford Madox Ford’s great novel about the immediate postwar period is Last Post (1928) and at its centre is a man...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2022 | Essays
‘Chalk’ in Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood, and Water, ed. Simon Martin, Yale University Press / Pallant House, 2022.