Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... poet he had just left , the students believed that across the walls that divided them from Europe lay a golden cultural realm from which they were for ever excluded . Just before the train arrived , he asked them why people still felt ...
... poet he had just left , the students believed that across the walls that divided them from Europe lay a golden cultural realm from which they were for ever excluded . Just before the train arrived , he asked them why people still felt ...
Page 157
... poet of his native language talking to him as if he had always belonged to her circle , as if he knew everyone she knew , had read everything that she had read , understood what she said and what she meant . In reality , of course ...
... poet of his native language talking to him as if he had always belonged to her circle , as if he knew everyone she knew , had read everything that she had read , understood what she said and what she meant . In reality , of course ...
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... poet's opinions began to emerge . In 1950 Emmanuel Litvinoff , a Jewish poet and man of letters , read to a London audience , which included Eliot and Stephen Spender , a poem entitled ' To T.S. Eliot ' , which took the poet to task for ...
... poet's opinions began to emerge . In 1950 Emmanuel Litvinoff , a Jewish poet and man of letters , read to a London audience , which included Eliot and Stephen Spender , a poem entitled ' To T.S. Eliot ' , which took the poet to task for ...
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