Articles By C.P. Nield
May 2015
The case for memorising verse is often dismissed as nostalgia for the bad old days of rote learning. But memory lifts poems off the page.
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October 2013
The American mythologist Joseph Campbell is to blame for the rise of moral relativism in the movie world — as Thomas Mann observed
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December 2012
Camille Paglia's Glittering Images is a bewildering nightmare of frenzied distraction, precisely the modern condition the author hoped to combat
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About C.P. Nield
C.P. Nield's poetry has been published in New Poetries IV (Carcanet), the Spectator, the New Humanist, Agenda, and the London Magazine.
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