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    If we accept beauty, effectiveness, and artistic merit, are the foundations of musical appreciation, then we must accept that there are no universal truths in our ability to decern [...]

    Simply called the Commedia, Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century magnum opus has fascinated scholars since its conception.  It has produced many artistic, literary, and [...]

  What is it about knowing what someone else likes to read?  It’s quite an intimate thing.  For me, I covered 20+ books last year.  Forget those challenges of “a book a week”.  This is [...]

      Prophet, social-revolutionary, spiritualist, eccentric.  These are a few of the characterisations that peers and historians have imbued on William Blake, the Romantic poet, [...]

    We show deference to history’s great Polymath’s, which includes Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Isaac Newton.  Whilst we may feel there is much to separate [...]

      In her seminal essay ‘The Lost Tools of Learning’, Dorothy Sayers said “To have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an [...]