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Category Archives: Anniversaries
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
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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
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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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Weekly Standard Remembers Waugh
The latest issue of Weekly Standard carries an article memorializing Waugh in this 50th anniversary year of his death. This is by Algis Valiunas who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The essay begins with the familiar characterization … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Algis Valiunas, Weekly Standard
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Waugh in the Public Domain
The Public Domain Review (a website devoted to the promotion of the free expression of ideas) has published a list of artists whose works will enter the public domain in some jurisdictions next year. In some countries this happens 50 years after … Continue reading
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Tagged Copyright, Public Domain Review
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Memoir of Brideshead TV Film in Vanity Fair
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the original director of the 1981 Granada TV film production of Brideshead Revisited, has written a memoir of his experience. This is published in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine and is entitled “Inside the Making of … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Derek Granger, Granada TV, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Vanity Fair
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