Guest post written by Paul Watt who is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. The ‘go-to’ text for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between music and morality in the nineteenth century is H.R. Haweis’s 1874 book, Music and Morals, despite the fact that it doesn’t deal with music and morality
Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends