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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Opera on Life of Siegfried Sassoon to Debut
The Guardian reports on the debut of an opera based on the life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon this weekend at the Garsington Opera in Buckinghamshire. Waugh and Sassoon were contemporaries but not friends, although they were connected through their … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Events, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Guardian, Joanna Moorhead, Opera, Ronald Knox, Siegfried Sassoon, Sister Jessica Gatty, Stephen Tennant
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Powell Society Papers Include Two about Waugh
The Anthony Powell Society has recently published the Proceedings of its 2016 Conference in York. There are two papers in this collection that relate directly to the writings of Evelyn Waugh. The titles and abstracts of these papers are set forth … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Conferences, Vile Bodies
Tagged Anthony Powell Society, Castle Howard, Henry Green, Proceedings of York Conference 2016
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Arcadia and Country Houses (More)
The BBC Radio 3 broadcast of the Words and Music episode on the subject of “Arcadia” is now available on the internet at this link. It is more music than words, and if you want to know source of either, you … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Radio Programs
Tagged BBC Radio 3, Laura Freeman, Phyllis Richardson, Times newspaper, Words and Music
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Telegraph Reviews Opening of Waugh Art Exhibit
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibit next week at Maggs Bros booksellers relating to Waugh’s work as a graphic artist, Michael Bird reviews his career in that field in today’s Sunday Telegraph. After describing Waugh’s movement from modernist iconoclast to opponent of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged EW Pinxit, Maggs Bros booksellers, Michael Bird, Sunday Telegraph
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Waugh and Country Houses
There have been several recent articles that mention Evelyn Waugh in connection with English country houses: Carlton Towers. As noted in a recent post, this house was the setting of Hetton Abbey in the 1980s film version of A Handful of … Continue reading
Et in Arcadia Ego (More)
The Latin phrase that Waugh used for the first chapter of Brideshead Revisited (“Et in Arcadio Ego”) was mentioned in a recent post in connection with Paul Theroux’s humorous allusion to it in his recent novel Mother Land. Since that was … Continue reading
Waugh in Mother Land
Mother Land is the latest novel of Paul Theroux whose career has many similarities to that of Evelyn Waugh. Both made their living exclusively from writing after beginning as school teachers. Theroux’s teaching career began in the Peace Corps on … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Sightings
Tagged Alex Clark, Mother Land, Observer, Paul Theroux
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BBC Radio 3 Programme Will Include Waugh
BBC Radio 3 has announced a new episode in its series Words and Music that will include the reading of an excerpt from the writings of, inter alia, Evelyn Waugh. Each episode involves the reading by one or more actors … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Radio Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC Radio 3, Southside Broadcasting, Words and Music
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Waugh and Chesterton
The Italian religious website Radio Spada has posted an essay by Luca Fumagalli entitled “Chesterton e Waugh: ridere per non dimenticare“, roughly “Chesterton and Waugh: laughing so as not to forget.” The article notes that Waugh and Chesterton had little to connect them as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged G.K. Chesterton, Luca Fumagelli, Radio Spada
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American Castles and Brutalist Towers
The latest issue of the National Review has an essay by Michael Knox Beran entitled “Why We Love McMansions and Other Modern Castles.” …America, though born in the faith that all men are created equal, is infatuated with castles — … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged architecture, Grenfell Tower, Michael Knox Beran, National Review, Richard King
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