Junior Research Fellow @NewCollegeOx @uniofoxford @engfac

Joined July 2021
‘I haven’t ever felt towards any one quite the way I do towards you.’ Discover more about queer life in Oxford in the 1920s in @NickTSmart’s #NewCollegeNote. 🏳️‍🌈 Focusing on the the literary critic F. O. Matthiessen, it is perfect for #LGBTplusHM26! 👇 ow.ly/KSLv50XSUjO
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Channelling T. S. Eliot on a blow-up seal while I drown happily in the Eliot-Hale correspondence published this morning tseliot.com/the-eliot-hale-l… (©️ Estates of Geoffrey Faber and T. S. Eliot)
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Robert Crawford to give lecture @MertonCollege on T.S. Eliot and biography – open to all. Details on our Events page: tseliotsociety.uk
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Writing about ‘What the Thunder Said’ just got a bit uncanny at the office @LibAllSouls
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During lockdown, Ralph Fiennes found himself drawn back to a work of poetry he knew well - TS Eliot's Four Quartets. Watch his mesmerising adaptation of this masterpiece - captured on film by director Sophie Fiennes - on BBC Four & @BBCiPlayer at 8pm: bbc.in/3rTouhI
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Contempt and scorn > sweetness and light? Really enjoyed writing this essay on Matthew Arnold, Zadie Smith, and the use of contempt
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Congratulations to Michael O'Connor & Connor Johnston who are joint winners of the Lord Alfred Douglas Prize for their poems ‘Let the River Begin Again’ and ‘Jar’. @NickTSmart was also commended for his poem ‘On the cellist playing outside Poundland©’. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article…