Channel Firing
That night your great guns, unawares
The madness and inevitability of war
Poem Tag: Abraham Cowley
Seven billion and one
Seven billion and one, or give or take
Westbrook on population growth
“A late lark” and “Madam Life”
Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
Contrasting takes on death by the Victorian W E Henley
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.