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As COVID-19 put the world under lockdown, at the start of the week global cases of coronavirus surpassed those in the former epicentre of China, as the worldwide total beyond China reached 87,000 and cases within the country at 80,860 remained relatively stagnant. While the government in the United Kingdom set out broad guidelines on social distancing, advising people...

T. S. Eliot's 'Portrait of a Lady' Published in Others One hundred years ago this month, the third issue of Alfred Kreymborg's little New York literary magazine Others appeared. The first issue, published in July, most notably contained Mina Loy's first four 'Love Songs'; the second, published in August, poems by Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, including Stevens' first major...

Emily Dickinson was born on 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the town where she would live the duration of her life. She attended Amherst Academy, newly opened to female students, for seven years, punctuated briefly by spells of illness and a stay in Boston in the aftermath of the death of her cousin, Sophia Holland. In her teens...