This week, we welcome the effervescent Mrs Buchanan from the English and Classics Department to our FHS Meets FHS interview series. Here are her recommendations!
You can hear her musical choice at the end of her interview.
The poem
SONNET 116:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
Click here to watch Juliet Stevenson reading it.
The book
Girl, woman, other – by Bernardine Evaristo
If you would like to buy the book, click here.
