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Category Archives: Anniversaries
NR Marks 10th Anniversary of Latin Mass Revival
An article in the National Review cites today (7 July 2017) as the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict’s action to revive the Latin Mass. This was an action that had been sought by the founder of the National Review, William … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Auberon Waugh, Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Labels, Newspapers
Tagged Latin Mass, marriage, National Review, Tablet Magazine
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Arnold Bennett Anniversary Remembered
The South China Morning Post has marked the 150th anniversary of novelist and critic Arnold Bennett’s birth. This appears in the paper’s travel column by Adam Nebbs which seems odd until he explains that Bennett wrote two books that took place in London’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Articles, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arnold Bennett, Savoy Hotel, South China Morning Post
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Harry Potter, Brideshead Revisited and Jeremy Corbin
The London papers are full of comments this week marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. In The Spectator, associate editor Toby Young looks at the political and cultural influences that contributed to J … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Harry Potter, J K Rowling, Labour Party, The Spectator, Toby Young
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Commonweal Marks J F Powers Centenary
The Roman Catholic literary magazine Commonweal has marked the centenary of novelist J F Powers birth with an article on Powers’ career entitled “His Bleak Materials” by biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers. The article begins with Meyers’ memoir of a 1981 … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Anniversaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Commonweal, J F Powers, Jeffrey Meyers
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Alec Waugh, War Poet
A weblog called “Behind Their Lines” which specializes in WWI poetry has posted a poem by Alec Waugh entitled “The Other Side”. He wrote the poem in March 1917, so this is now its centenary. The poem was included in … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Anniversaries
Tagged "The Other Side", Erle Stanley Gardner, World War I poetry
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Arthur Waugh and Prufrock and More
The Weekly Standard’s current issue has an article by American literary scholar William Pritchard marking the centenary of T S Eliot’s first collection of poems–Prufrock and Other Observations. The lead poem in the slim volume of twelve was “The Love Song … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Conferences, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Arthur Waugh, Daily Mail, John Zmirak, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, TS Eliot, Weekly Standard, William Pritchard
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Ronald Knox, Prose Stylist
In a review of the recent collection of articles Ronald Knox, A Man for All Seasons (see earlier post), Washington journalist Matthew Walther declares Knox to be the greatest English prose stylist of his time (P G Wodehouse excepted). Several … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Collections, Newspapers, Ronald Knox
Tagged First Things, Matthew Walther
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Anniversary of Waugh’s Death Marked by BBC
BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 have marked the anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death, which occurred on 10 April 1966, with the posting of a 1979 Radio 3 interview of Graham Greene. Greene explained that the two authors’ deaths that had most … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, Graham Greene
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House and Garden Reprints Excerpts from Wine in Peace and War
House and Garden magazine has reprinted excerpts it earlier published from Waugh’s 1947 booklet Wine in Peace and War: 2017 marks 70 years since House & Garden magazine first hit the news stands as the quarterly ‘Vogue House & Garden Book’, bound to its … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Collections, Newspapers, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged House and Garden
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Anniversary on Horizon
A passage from Waugh’s 1935 biography of Edmund Campion has been quoted on a religious website by Fr John Hunwicke (formerly a teacher and chaplain at Lancing College). This is intended to provide a context for the observance next year of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Elizabeth I, Fr John Hunwicke, Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis
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