Like the poet, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a dashing man of action and letters and a hero to the Greeks for his wartime exploits in Crete

Braving Albania's deadly roads in a vain hunt for a good meal

Richard Salmon's is good on nuance but his book on the Victorian Literary Profession is in need of a grand narrative

The historian Tim Blanning and the critic Jonathan Bate discuss the place of Romanticism in contemporary culture with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson