Topic: Cyril Connolly
Several years ago in the Financial Times, I stirred the digital pot by describing blogging as " " My point was not that blogging was pointless, but that it had the potential to be, following the critic and editor Cyril Connolly, an enemy of ...
Presents the poem "Evening Apparition," Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo established the career; his book about a whale was a commercial and critical disaster that now bestrides the narrow world of fic- tion like a colossus. More germane to my discussion ...
by Oscar Wilde and how he thought that it was through art that we can realize our perfection and that it is the world of art that we enter that can protect us from our sheer existance. In The Critic as Artist ...
Nov. 26, 1974, London), English critic, novelist, and man of letters, founder and editor of Horizon, a magazine of contemporary literature that was a major influence in Britain in its time (1939-50). The son of an army major, he was educated at ...
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse," "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall," judged Cyril Connolly. "Distracted from distraction by distraction," wrote TS Eliot. Yet Yeats, Eliot and Connolly all ...
THE BEST PROSPECT , 1995-2005 edited by David Goodhart Atlantic, Prospect is a monthly magazine with high aims, and it is therefore welcome. David Goodhart had the idea of it, raised the money and is the editor. T. S. Eliot's Criterion, Cyril ...
Asked whether a good review would sell a book, the publisher Rupert Hart-Davies replied, 'No, but a concatenation of good ones may do so.' One would like to think this true, even while observing that the bestseller lists regularly feature novels which ...
A NANTHOLOGY OF MIRON GRINDEA 'SADAM EDITORIALS by Rachel Lasserson Vallentine Mitchell (Tel: Having started ADAM in Bucharest, Grindea arrived in London on the fateful day of 1 September 1939, re-establishing the journal in 1941 on the thoroughly insecure footing on which ...
PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld Picador, GENTLEMEN & In Prep, Lee Fiora hails from unfashionable Indiana and wins a scholarship to Ault, a smart boarding school in Massachusetts. The cool, pared-down prose mirrors Lee's aloofness, which allows her to observe the social hierarchies ...
Grub Street Irregular: He is a funny, perceptive, elegant writer with an evident gift for friendship and an ability to handle difficult people with tact, among them AL Rowse, the conceited, curmudgeonly scholar whom Lewis visits in his Cornish lair shortly before ...
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