Tim Parks’s Italy Part I, by Linda Leith
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)
Email, the Internet, Facebook and newspapers – whether in print or online – are the enemies of writing. Reading is the enemy of writing.
John Ruskin attached a tower to his bedroom on his mountainside estate, Brantwood, on the shores of Coniston Water in Cumbria. Unlike Sackville-West’s, his tower room windowed on all sides, almost a capsule, offered a corner in which to escape from recurring nightmares or to watch the stars.
Though Carlyle was a literary giant of quasi-mythic proportions and a hero to Victorians, his theories and writing are largely forgotten or ignored outside of university departments of English. That is the fate enjoyed by many a writer, and one need not be dead.
