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The Vision of Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas (1920-1944), poet, artist, prose writer and veteran of El Alamein, was the subject of the 2001 Chatterton Lecture, delivered at the British Academy on 26 April 2001 by Dr Tim Kendall. In this edited extract, Dr Kendall considers the centrality of the ‘visual’ in Douglas’s poetry.

‘I should want nothing more’: Edward Thomas and simplicity

Full text of article by Guy Cuthbertson posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 7, pp. 89-121.

Edward Lear's lines of flight

Full text of article by Matthew Bevis posted to Journal of the British Academy, volume 1, pp. 31-69.

Thomas Chatterton: four ways of literary terra-forming

Full text of article by Nick Groom, posted to the Journal of the British Academy, volume 10, pp. 135-155.

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