Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse

The complexities of marriage and familial relationships are explored in Virginia Woolf’s brilliant stream of consciousness novel. While vacationing on the Isle of Skye, the youngest of the Ramsay children, James, eagerly anticipates a visit to a lighthouse, however, Mr. Ramsay believes the weather will …

‘The blood-dimmed tide is loosed’

‘… So for example, the Yeats poem “The Second Coming” [that’s the one that starts: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the falconer”]. That’s a canonical poem. He wrote it in 1919, and it has been read, quite rightly, as …