Today's posts

 

The poem this week is ‘Market Day in Barcelona’.       

 

There is another letter from my terrace in Palma. This week it is ‘Two baked beans tins’.  

 

Today we begin the play ‘Johnson of London’.  Some histories of the literature of Britain have called the 18^th century the age of Johnson. Singlehandedly he produced the first great English dictionary. He edited the plays of Shakespeare and wrote the Lives of the Poets. He founded The Club whose members included Burke, Reynolds and Goldsmith. His biography by a young Scot, James Boswell, has made him famous. After reading Boswell you expect to bump into Johnson himself as you walk down Fleet Street or turn a corner into the warren of streets and squares nearby.