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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is the Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University and a former poet laureate of the United Kingdom.

Descent Into the Underworld

Descent Into the Underworld

An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 03, 2018
Four Poems

Four Poems

“The Last of England,” “Hawthorn,” “Surveillance,” and “Fells Point Songs”

by Andrew Motion | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Too Much Poetic License

Too Much Poetic License

An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 05, 2016

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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