by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2016 | Essays
My introduction to the Little Toller Nature Classics edition, 2016. “So Thomas goes west to Coleridge and to Spring, an odd doubling since Coleridge’s Springs are darkly uncertain times. Thomas has the ghostly ballad ‘Christabel’ in mind, a poem set in April,...
by Eamonn Boylan | Apr 1, 2016 | Essays
‘The Abyss Beyond the Orchard’ – on The Centenary Letters edition of William Cowper’s correspondence. Slightly Foxed, Spring 2017. “His long poem The Task (1785) seemed to articulate all the longed-for goodness of familiar, homely things;...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2015 | Essays
The published version of my Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture, delivered at Senate House in London in January 2015. Published by The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, with an ice blue cover. https://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/vw_publications.htm “The...
by Eamonn Boylan | Mar 1, 2015 | Essays
My introduction to the catalogue Kenneth Rowntree: A Centenary Exhibition. The show began at the Fry Art Gallery and toured to Pallant House Gallery in summer 2015. https://lissllewellyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Rowntree-centenary.pdf “…These were...
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...
