snobbery

JAN MOIR: The half-baked snobbery against a cake shop that leaves such a sour taste

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What I’d like to do right now is go to Arundel and buy a lemon yum yum from the LG Café in the town centre, which snobbish locals are trying to close.  I’d like to drink to the health and wealth of the café owners with one of their cups of piping hot chocolate and … Read more

No boring theory or intellectual snobbery. Just poems awash with well-loved lines

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A Little History Of Poetry John Carey Yale University £14.99 Rating: Roughly 250 years ago, James Boswell asked Dr Johnson: ‘What is poetry?’ ‘Why sir, it is much easier to say what it is not,’ replied Johnson. ‘We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.’ John Carey … Read more