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actually, reading marlowe's plays as texts is highly rewarding, and there is a growing appreciation of them as such, as part of a wider change of approach to elizabethan drama. in tamburlaine, marlowe's use of 'the mighty line' is just as important as his use of striking, overblown stage...

excellent idea for a thread jenks! for me, shakespeare is probably the greatest writer in english...with joyce losing out only because of his relative lack of range. not everything shax wrote is great, but when he's on form (/lear/, /the tempest/, /as you like it/, /a midsummer night's dream/...

@ bassnation: "and when we disagree we will do it in the way we want, not in the sanctioned terms that you approve of" out of interest, at want point does Kernkätchen infer an approval of what you call "sanctioned terms"?

Would be interested to find out which study. Why is 'work' defined in such narrow terms? Doesn't all the time spent sitting around making tools etc also count as work, since it would have been necessary for survival? And have you ever tried lighting a fire without matches? That almost takes...

What possible verification can you have for this? What do you mean by 'work' anyway, since you've put it in inverted commas?

weeell, real geniuses, the once-in-a-generation masters, are "driven by a genuine love", sure, in the sense that they are completely consumed by their work, they have to be. but no real genius is unaware of his talents. if we're looking for common trends, this more often leads to a contempt...

good question - the answer of course being that it never has been. it probably is fair to say that poetry enjoys an especially low profile at the moment, with the exception of those risible and utterly objectionable themed "anthologies" - Poems To Fall in Love To/Break Up To etc. the lowest of...

Was anyone there? I was blown away by it.

a few basics, some slightly more up to date than frye.... ;) John Beer - Blake’s Humanism. Manchester: 1968. David Erdman - Blake: Prophet Against Empire. 1977. Nelson Hilton - Literal Imagination: Blake’s Vision of Words. Berkeley 1983. John Meen - Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the...

yeh i've been looking forward to this for a while now...sounds like it might be worth the wait!

no, and i haven't had any problems with itunes at all. a bit memory-intensive, but nice interface, not too obtrusive and reliable. what's your beef with it?

Do you happen to know which one?

"hardly revolutionary given the programme- 'unheard beats' are what breezeblock does every now and then." well, it's not of course the first time dubstep dj's have played on radio 1, and yes, it probably passed by most people who don't follow the scene anyway. /but/ the more people on...

http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram/examples.html Look at the bottom example (the Aphex Twin one). Does anyone know if this is for real? If so, how was it created?

I think PRAAT does it. http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

this is an interesting question. no - the author (and this excludes dramatists, who were only really seen as writers post-shax, tho the point at which plays began to be regarded as written texts as well as performative pieces is being pushed back all the time) did not have public standing, he...

speaking of black squirrels - did anyone see this article on the vicious little bastards? and speaking of crack squirrels - in the east london rag a few weeks back the front page was devoted to a rumour that squirrels were digging up rocks of crack and munching them. ludicrous, clearly, but not...

no. "literary fiction" is, admittedly a rather vague term. but i'm intrigued that you submit yourself so obediently to the judgement of the booker panel. in publishing, "literary fiction" is a useful term to distinguish those books that will appeal to a particular sector of the market; it is not...

judging by labrat's damning and unsubstantiated "views" on classical music - it's all bollocks! - i woudn't hold your breath on this one... ;) i'm shamefully out of touch with comtemp lit fiction, but its worth bearing in mind that the number of truly great authors from any given period is...