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Category Archives: Love Among The Ruins
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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Late July Roundup
–The latest issue of The Oldie has an article by David Horspool comparing the WWII novels of Lev Grossman (Stalingrad), recently published for the first time in a complete English translation, and Joseph Heller (Catch 22), recently adapted into a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Letters, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Psycho, Craig Brown, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, David Horspool, Filmmaker Magazine, Princess Margaret, Spectator, The Oldie
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Memorial Day/Late-May Bank Holiday Roundup
–In a recent two-part article on the non-denominational religious website Patheos.com, the morality of the nuclear bombing of Japan is reconsidered. The article is made up of a collection of the views expressed on the moral and religious issues arising … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Mail, HeraldScotland, Patheos.com, Sunday Times, The New Criterion, University of Warwick
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“American Epoch” Revisited
In an article posted on the weblog, The Just Third Way, Michael Greaney discusses Waugh’s 1949 Life magazine article on the Roman Catholic Church in America. Greaney introduces the subject with a brief reference to several critics of the Church … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Love Among The Ruins, The Loved One
Tagged Life Magazine, Michael Greaney
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Officers Among the Islands
Duncan McLaren continues his visits to locations associated with what he calls Evelyn Waugh’s Piers Court years. The first of these is “An Arsonist’s Progress” which explores the evolution of what became Waugh’s story Love Among the Ruins. This began … Continue reading
Posted in Love Among The Ruins, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, The Holy Places, World War II
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Isle of Arran, Randolph Churchill
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Roundup: Orphans and Entrecote
This week’s roundup relates mostly to books and book reviews: –In reviewing the book Orphans: A History by Jeremy Seabrook in The Spectator, novelist Philip Hensher considers several eaxmples of how orphans have been treated in literature by various authors, … Continue reading
Waugh and Religious Satire
Prof Terry Lindvall of Virginia Wesleyan University has written a book entitled God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert. In his broad survey, he gives some time to a brief consideration of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Ronald Knox
Tagged Religious Satire, Terry Lindvall
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Spring Issue of Evelyn Waugh Studies Available
The Spring 2018 issue of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies is now available. This is issue 49.1. The contents and abstracts of articles are set forth below. A complete copy of this issue is available here: ARTICLES Milena Borden, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Love Among The Ruins, Vile Bodies
Tagged Milena Borden, Toshiaki Onishi
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Roundup: Ruins, Snobs and Remittance Men
An art exhibit in Sheffield is named for a Waugh story. This is Love Among the Ruins at the S1 Artspace gallery. The gallery is temporarily located in the garage of the Park Hill housing estate while another part of … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Oxford, Remote People, The Loved One
Tagged Hertford College, Professor Mondo, The Mercury (South Africa), The Star (Sheffield), Volksstimme (Basel)
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