Which Jo(h)nson Is It?…Eliot Doesn’t Know February 13, 2013: A letter written by T.S. Eliot has surfaced after 40 years of obscurity, according to this news item from the BBC. The letter was a addressed to Jacob Isaacs and concerned the republication of Eliot's 1927 essay "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca." [Eliot's essay] examined how the popularity of the Greek writer's tragedies in [...] by Harriet Staff

Revisiting the links between poetry and mental illness February 7, 2011: The BBC's Alex Hudson updates some of the familiar territory surrounding the links between madness and creativity, particularly poetry. Instead of wondering whether poetry drives one insane, however, Hudson wants to know if there's something about the act of writing poetry that attracts those who are predisposed to mental illness and mood [...] by Harriet Staff