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Category Archives: A Little Learning
Roundup: Baby Jungman, Proust, Japan and Zeppelins
–Mark McGinness has written an obituary of Desmond Guinness for the Australian literary magazine Quadrant. In this he adds another Waugh connection not mentioned in the English and Irish papers. See previous post. After his marriage to his first wife … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged Desmond Guinness, Marcel Proust, Quadrant, Radio Times, Standpoint, Taichi Koyama, The Sinpapore Grip, WeaponsandWarfare.com
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Group ’27
Spanish novelist and critic Jose Joaquin Bermudez Olivares posting on the Spanish literary website Todo Literatura has nominated a generation of English writers as Group ’27. He refers to a group of Spanish writers with a similar denomination, although their relevance … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Articles, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jose Joaquin Bermudez Olivares, Todo Literatura
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George Steiner 1929-2020 R.I.P.
Literary critic and scholar George Steiner died last week in Cambridge, England at the age of 90. He is the latest eminent literary critic to pass away recently, starting with Harold Bloom in October and continuing with Samuel Hynes, Clive … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Dominic Green, George Steiner, New York Times, The Critic
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Clive James (1939-2019) R. I. P.
The critic and poet Clive James has died at the age of 80, after a long fight with cancer. He was born in Australia and moved to England in the early 1960s where he finished his education at Cambridge University. … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Clive James, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun (Melbourne)
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Waugh Letters to Richard Plunket Greene on Offer
Southeby’s has announced the auction of 10 letters from Evelyn Waugh, written while he was teaching at Arnold House School in North Wales. Here’s the description: 10 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, EIGHT TO RICHARD PLUNKET GREENE, ONE TO HIS MOTHER GWEN … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Auctions, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Richard Plunket Greene, Southeby's
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Lancing Chapel to be Completed
The Times newspaper reports, in an article by Nicola Woolcock, that the chapel at Lancing College will be completed over 150 years after it was begun: A stunning and distinctive place of worship towering over the landscape has remained unfinished … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Evelyn Waugh, Labels, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Lancing Chapel, The Times newspaper
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Waugh Featured in Conservative Journal
The American Conservative, a print magazine and online journal, has issued an article entitled: “Evelyn Waugh Predicted the Collapse of Catholic England: He saw Vatican II as an attempt by elites to foist changes on a laity that didn’t want them.” … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged Second Vatican Council, The American Conservative
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Roundup: Party Fiction and Personal Libraries
–The National Review has published a symposium on the subject of personal libraries in which participants explain the pleasure and burden they impose. Here’s the contribution of American literary critic Terry Teachout: My Manhattan apartment contains a thousand-odd books, but … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Adaptations, Events, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Literary Hub, National Review, Paris Review, Terry Southern, Terry Teachout
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Groundhog Day Roundup
–Columnist John Derbyshire has posted a story in his “Derb’s January Diary” column on the anti-immigrant website Vdare that may start another debate like U/Non-U pronunciation or George and Ira Gershwin’s line “You say tomato, and I say tomahto”. Derbyshire, … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Cecil Beaton, John Derbyshire, Jonathan Meades, language, Standpoint, The Times, Tracey Thorn, Vdare.com
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Roundup: The Walrus and the Waugh Scholars
–Duncan McLaren has added a new article to his Evelyn Waugh website relating to three of the first volumes of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Precocious Waughs (v.30), Essays, Articles and Reviews 1922-1934 (v.26), and A Little Learning (v.19). He … Continue reading
Posted in A Little Learning, Complete Works, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, Work Suspended
Tagged Catholic Herald, Duncan McLaren, Literary Hub, Marcel Proust, The Tatler
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