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Category Archives: Biographies
Biography of a Poem: W H Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
The Times has a review of a new book by Ian Sansom in its “Book of the Week” column. This is a “biography” of W H Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939” soon to celebrate its 80th birthday. The review by … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags
Tagged The Times, W H Auden
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Waugh and “Mrs Bluefeet” in New Book
The latest Literary Review has an essay by novelist and literary critic D J Taylor about what he calls “biographer’s luck”. The was inspired by his latest biography to be published next month in the UK. An American edition entitled The … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Horizon, Janetta Parladé, Literary Review
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–A new biography has been written of Lord Beaverbrook, primary model for Lord Copper in Waugh’s novel Scoop. This is reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines in the current TLS. The review opens with this: There have been previous biographies of the … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Black Mischief, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Greatness, Amherst College, Charles Reich, Christopher Sykes, Lord Beaverbrook, Mallory's Camera, Theodore Baird, TLS
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Waugh at Campion College, Sydney
The Australian newspaper has posted an article based on the Occasional Address given by Dyson Heydon, a former High Court judge, at the recent graduation ceremony of Campion College in Sydney. He opens with this: Campion College is a small … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Edmund Campion, Newspapers
Tagged Campion College, Dyson Heydon, The Australian
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Estate of Waugh
In this week’s New Statesman, lead book reviewer Leo Robson expands his horizons to consider the question of how literary estates have affected literary history. There are four books listed as the subject of the review, but these are barely … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Complete Works, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Leo Robson, Martin Stannard, New Statesman
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And Yet More Letters
Literary biographer Zachary Leader is interviewed on the Book Marks page of the Literary Hub website. The second volume of his biography of Saul Bellow is published this week, and he has written the biography and edited the letters of Kingsley … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters
Tagged Book Marks, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Zachary Leader
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Score Settling Time
In the 12 July 2018 issue of the New York Review of Books, Max Hastings, former editor of the Daily Telegraph, reviews Hilary Spurling’s biography of Anthony Powell. This is not scheduled to be published in the USA until the … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Biographies, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, Daily Telegraph, Hilary Spurling, Max Hastings, New York Review of Books
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Duncan McLaren in Grahamland
Duncan McLaren has added a new essay to his website. This is entitled “Evelyn Concluded or Ask Alastair” and is devoted exclusively to Alastair Graham and his on and off relationship with Evelyn Waugh in the 1920s and a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Wales
Tagged Alasatir Graham, Duncan McLaren
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