"... what is poetry to us—akin to the folk-lore of water-sprites, naiads, kelpies, river-gods and water-worship in gen…"

"... when a priest undertakes by certain movements of his hands, by use of certain invocations, of certain names and f…"

"... Paul's Christ is an a priori construction of his own, owing to the historical man of Nazareth and to those who kn…"

"We can write a life of Julius Caesar or of Cicero, because we have in the first line letters, commentaries, and other…"

"The various writings—narrative, epistolary, and apocalyptic—which make up the New Testament had no common origin, but…"

"Marcion, in the middle of the second century, had pitilessly assailed the God of the Jews, and denounced the cruelty,…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"