Channel Firing
That night your great guns, unawares
The madness and inevitability of war
English poems
Dover Beach
The sea is calm tonight
A bleak but beautiful reflection on 19th-century life by Matthew Arnold.
Tenbury Wells
Westbrook on love and family.
Paradise Lost Book 1, lines 1 - 26
Paradise Lost begins
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
The opening lines of Milton's great epic
Westbrook jokes about the novel
Emma Woodhouse was no retiring mouse
Troilus and Cressida, Act III Scene 3
Shakespeare eavesdrops on Odysseus and Achilles
I do believe it, for they pass'd by me
Ulysses suggests that celebrities cannot rest on their laurels.
Menelaus reflects
The Queen and I meet almost every day
Menelaus takes stock
San Lorenzo
Across the way see San Lorenzo stand
J de S Westbrook on hidden beauties.
Opening lines from Homer’s Odyssey
The man, O Muse, inform, that many a way
The first lines of the Odyssey, translated by George Chapman in a version admired by Keats