Tag: Corner

I HAVE been looking again at my old copy of John Keble’s The Christian Year, one of the books that inspired me to write my own Sounding the Seasons: Sonnets for the Christian year, the second half of whose title is, of…

IMMERSED as I am at the moment in all things Arthurian, I am struck by the special significance that Pentecost seems to have in the early narratives. There is clearly something about the feast of Pentecost which our forebears…

I HAVE noticed in the past few years that many more flags are being flown: from people’s private houses, from pubs, and, indeed, from churches. My sense is that this trend started, or certainly accelerated, after the Russian…