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Guy Stagg @GuyStagg

Writer and walker / Books: The World Within (2025), The Crossway (2018) / Words in @FT @spectator @TheTLS / Agent: @RCWlitagency

Joined August 2024
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Back in @FT reviewing @andrea_wulf's new biography of George Forster. He joined Cook's crossing of the Antarctic Circle, befriended Goethe and had a spat with Kant, abandoned everything up to become a champion of the French Revolution, and died at 39: ft.com/content/e902b6d2-f7f5…

The Traveller by Andrea Wulf — the fascinating life of George Forster

The 18th-century geographer, botanist and writer was also a champion of liberty and a proto-Romantic, according to his award-winning biographer

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What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Walking round the grounds of the Burnt Norton estate, inspiration for the first of T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'.
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Another @spectator outing: this times discussing Reform v Restore, frog poison v therapy, and Middlemarch v Sherlock Holmes on The Edition: youtube.com/watch?v=YLaxlKgW…

How much of a threat is Restore Britain to Reform UK? with Elizabeth...

For this week’s Edition, Lara Prendergast is joined by the Spectato...

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Pleased to be back in @spectator reviewing @hannahluci's fascinating new book 'Hinterlands' about the overlooked conflicts on the fringes of Europe - featuring gazelles, crypto mining, Soviet summer camps and the Putin-Erdogan bromance: spectator.com/article/putin-…

Putin and Erdogan are playing with fire in the Balkans and the Caucasus

There are 34 disputed territories in and around Europe. In some cases, two or more nations claim the same patch of land. In others, separatist governments demand their own sovereignty. Many of these...

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But Grantchester! ah, Grantchester! There’s peace and holy quiet there, Great clouds along pacific skies, [...] A bosky wood, a slumbrous stream, And little kindly winds that creep Round twilight corners, half asleep.
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"Noto is a kind of folly, a little miracle at the end of Europe."
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Delighted to discover that, when it opened in 1867, the Grand Hotel Scarborough was the largest hotel in Europe, and one of the largest brick structures in the world.
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Henry Oliver@HenryEOliver
May 14
“The whole influence of psychology has turned our interest to what George Eliot would have called the downward path... We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.” —V.S. Pritchett, 1946
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I suspect that the human species - the unique species - is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret. - Borges, The Library of Babel
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May 7
In the Bodleian bookstore
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'The Trees' by Philip Larkin
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Pleased to be back in the @TheTLS reviewing two fascinating books about Sicily by @TimParksauthor and Helena Atlee: the-tls.com/world/travel/the…

Two Sicilian expeditions

Homer never named the place where the Cyclopes lived. However, the people of Mount Etna have always assumed that Polyphemus and his companions inhabited

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Wilfred Thesiger: 'the stillness of a world that never knew an engine'.
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Apr 28
إنتعاش اهوار العراق بعد كثرة الأمطار هذه السنة
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Given T.S. Eliot's animosity towards Bertrand Russell - over Vivienne, over religion - I imagine he was particularly delighted by this last line.
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Apr 27
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This is what central London looks like right now.
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Apr 22
Springtime woodland in Suffolk, UK.
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Great mini-documentary on the lost Lutyens Liverpool Cathedral: youtube.com/watch?v=_0nuTkaG…

Liverpool’s Unbuilt Cathedral That Could Have Rivalled St Peter’s

Sir Edwin Lutyens was one of the greatest British architects of the...

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County Longford between the rain showers.
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Richard Morris@ahistoryinart
Apr 18
Fred Cuming was considered one of the finest landscape painters of his generation. Much of his work celebrates southern English coastlines; the sea and skies of Hastings, Rye or Camber as here, illuminated by dawn, dusk, or glowing moonlight.
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Basil Spence's Coventry Cathedral is a beautiful Modernist sacred space, but his Brutalist British embassy in Rome is a nightmare.
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Enjoyed speaking with Inkspot about the new book: youtube.com/watch?v=5OeWO5cr…

Artistic & Philosophical Development Through Pilgrimage | Guy Stagg

We talk about three famous creatives and philosophers who developed...

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