Showing posts with label T.S. Eliot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T.S. Eliot. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

T.S. Eliot rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for Faber & Faber

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Stefan Collini has reviewed the latest volume of T.S. Eliot's letters for the London Review of Books. It covers the years 1942-4, and t...
Friday, December 12, 2025

John Carey and The Intellectuals and the Masses

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The death of John Carey, the critic and former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, has been reported today. I discovered him t...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

Finding our more about Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley

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"It's time to find out more about Frieda Harris," I wrote the other day of the woman who was the wife of one Liberal MP (Sir ...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Two per cent of GCSE students study literature by female authors

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I saw a tweet by Wera Hobhouse , the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, in support of the End Sexism in Schools campaign. It said that, "sh...
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Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Joy of Six 1222

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"What they got was a journalist with access to the upper reaches of the Government, with a determination to get on air and tell everyon...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

The Joy of Six 1146

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Matthew Pennell expects the Conservatives to look to the US Republicans when devising their strategy for the next general election. The goo...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Alan Bennett once delivered chops to T.S. Eliot's mother-in-law

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The video of a recent British Film Institute event with Alan Bennett has appeared on YouTube. So far I've watched just the first few min...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The importance of Auden to English literature

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Today has been W.H. Auden's birthday. He was born in this house on Bootham in York on 21 February 1907. Edward Mendelson's introduct...
Friday, January 20, 2023

He was a good Cornish Liberal and a Radical: Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch and True Tilda

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I once imagined that Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (rhymes with Gooch), who signed himself Q and edited Horace Rumpole's beloved Oxford Book...
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