some LANDSCAPES

Among the 4,500 poems which make up the Manyōshū (' Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves'), there is one attributed to the Emperor Jo...

The main reason the last three posts have featured both James Wright and German literature is that I've been reading Wright's tr...

A reference to one of Joseph von Eichendorff's poems in that last post reminds me that I've not previously mentioned here one of...

One of the James Wright poems in The Branch Will Not Break that I didn't mention in my previous post is 'From a Bus Window in Centr...

One poem I've never managed to persuade my wife to like is James Wright's 'Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pin...

John La Farge, Diadem Mountain at Sunset, Tahiti , c1891 Source: Wikimedia Commons   There was an interesting article recently by ...

I have been watching the DVD of Gideon Koppel's acclaimed film sleep furiously (2009), a remarkably poetic documentary shot over the co...

'The world is blue at its edges and in its depths,' writes Rebecca Solnit in A Field Guide to Getting Lost .  Blue is 'the color...

Richard Long and Giuseppe Penone both came to prominence in the late sixties making art in the landscape, and their most recent work is curr...

If I hadn't been so busy at work I might have tried to get to the Aubin & Wills Literary Salon this evening, where Travis Elborough ...

After the aesthetic pleasures of Barcelona's victory against Manchester United last night it seemed fitting to head down this morning to...

Contemporary artist Iwan Gwyn Parry tackling Arenig in 'The Mountain That Had to Be Painted' This week I've been unable t...

A year ago in the LRB Marina Warner wrote a fascinating review of Erik Fischer's monumental four-volume catalogue devoted to the work ...

Two photographs in magazines I’ve been reading this month caught my eye.  The first, from Tate etc. (Summer 2011) is Magritte’s Les Idée...

Garden on the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall To the South Bank Centre yesterday where the sixtieth anniversary of The Festival of Britain...

Claude Lorrain, Perseus and the Discovery of Coral , c1671 (preparatory drawing for the Holkham Hall painting, Metropolitan Museum of ...

Robert Walser's novel The Assistant (1908) opens on a spring morning as Joseph Marti knocks on the door of a lakeside villa owned by his...

OK third time lucky. I've written this post twice now and both times it's been deleted - I don't know if other blogspot users ar...

In one of my earliest posts here I talked about the wide range of landscapes on show at the Royal Academy's 2005 exhibition China: The ...

Britain's rural landscape is a constant presence in Rob Young's exploration of visionary folk music, Electric Eden . His prologue...