Where should we meet but in this shabby park Where the railings are missing and the branches black? Industrial pastoral, our circuit Of grass under ash, long standing water And unimportant sunsets flaring up Above the half-dismantled fair. Our place Of in-betweens, abandoned viaducts And modern flowers, dock and willowherb, Lost mongrels, birdsong scratching at …
On the first floor of the V&A is a corridor full of stained glass. It illustrates the art of the glazier and glass painter from the middle of the 12th Century to the present day. Whole plants and plant motifs appear frequently in the detail. Creations found in the V&A must be an endless source of …
D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love (1920) is a novel in which natural desires perturb the lives of people fixated on artistic and intellectual transcendence. Ursula, Gudrun, Gerald, and Birkin struggle—even to death—to resist their inevitable coupling. The story is uncomfortable, full of bad feelings created by the dissonance between individual freedom and what the …