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Eric Ormsby

From Jesus Sect to Imperial Faith
Two new works by Geza Vermes and Peter Brown eloquently and enthusiastically chart the progress of Christianity from Jesus Christ to the height of the Byzantine empire
Eric Ormsby

Clutching at Straws and Tilting at Minarets
Two new books on the origins of Islam suffer from, at best, sloppy, and at worst, dishonest, scholarship
Eric Ormsby

A Wee Dram of History
Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer
Eric Ormsby

The Erotic Inferno
Book review of Dante in Love by A.N. Wilson
Eric Ormsby

Underrated — Alfred Lord Tennyson

This Victorian versifier has always been an acquired taste, even to his contemporaries. But today, his prolific output is barely read at all — and we are poorer for it

Eric Ormsby

Overrated — Paul Muldoon
Acclaimed poet Paul Muldoon may be a dazzling wordsmith, but his verse is all style and no substance
Eric Ormsby

Rhyming Triplets
Book Reviews: New & Collected Poems, by U. A. Fanthorpe; How Snow Falls, by Craig Raine; and Late Poems, by Anthony Thwaite
Eric Ormsby

Geoffrey Hill
The "unabashedly elitist" elegist of England is an ideal candidate for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry
Eric Ormsby

The Poetical Mollusc
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks
Eric Ormsby

Holier than Thou

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch and A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman

Eric Ormsby

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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