Beautiful lofty people

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The festivitas of Sir Thomas More

Montaigne's 'scandalous serenity'

The man Montaigne

Colette and the word regarde

A way of looking

John Bois, notetaker

Hester Thrale and her notebooks

The wise reply of Mrs. Thrale

The shoes of Dorothy Wordsworth and Fanny Burney

Of Dorothy Wordsworth

William Wordsworth, Walker

A walk with John Chester

I would be John Chester

Ben Jonson, Walker

Herrick's Julia

The suitor of Christina Rossetti

Mr. Cayley

Rabelais on marriage

Miss Cassandra Austen

Cassandra and Jane

The way to Little Gidding

The portrait of Oliver Cromwell

Oliver's warts

Mr. Katsimbalis

Niki and the four-day classical tour

The belly button

Byzantium without Yeats

A tourist to Byzantium

Where did all the blue go, Picasso?

When I haven't any blue, I use red

Byron on a diet

The seasonable Mr. White of Selborne

Mr. White, walking

Beautiful lofty gardeners

Virgil says

Emily Dickinson at home

Emily to her niece

Aunt Mary Emerson in a shroud

Aunt Mary and the worm

Mrs. Trollope and the spitters

Mrs. Trollope in America

Beautiful lofty courtesans

Dr. Johnson and Bet Flint

Bet Flint

David Garrick, actor of actors

The countess of Pembroke's book

The accidents of John Aubrey

Sydney Smith, a nice person

'Tis good sleeping in a whole skin

Beautiful lofty astronauts

The armchair astronomer

The felicity of Madame de Sevigne

The lady of the Chateau

Wife to Simon Bradstreet

Dylan Thomas, hellgazer and rejoicer

Under the milkwood tree

A nun, a girl, and Gerard Manley Hopkins

The hoarder

The wit of Wallace Stevens

I sit here reading a poet

D.H. Lawrence on sex

E.E. Cummings on love

Advice (a little) useful

Beautiful lofty philosophers

Man on a horse