The Diary Review

‘The most beautiful poem there is, is life - life which discerns its own story in the making, in which inspiration and self-consciousness go...

Hilda Doolittle, an American poet who wrote under the pen name H.D., died 60 years ago today. She was associated with the avant-garde imagis...

’We did enough bombarding to last us a lifetime, I guess the Cleveland and us still hold the title of firing more shells than any other shi...

‘The substance dissolves much more readily in Ether than in Alcohol. A hot solution of Ether deposits crystals as it cools. A glass rod dipp...

‘Went to Boston. Saw ye largest Funeral perhaps that was ever in Boston. 8 or 10 thousand present.’ This is from a diary kept by the reveren...

‘In the evening to the first performance of Le Prophète . The public called me out after acts 2, 3, 4, and 5, twice in fact after act 4. At ...

‘Sunny, spring-like day. Day of disasters. This morning I read the fax that Gemini Films sent me, in which they communicate me the changes ...

‘Another day, another revolution of light and shade. Enjoy thy existence, sayest thou, holy dawn of morning, animating glance of love, beam ...

Walter Scott, one of Britain’s greatest writers and the first to gain international celebrity status, was born a quarter of a millennium ago...