Lewis, Jeremy,
Cyril Connolly : a life / Jeremy Lewis - xvii, 653 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-623) and index
Ancestral voices--Intimations of eden -- Aut colleger aut Nihil -- The dream brother--Pop and the permanent adolescent--Blokey Balliol--Miehead and after--In limbo--Uncle baldhead and the Affable Hawk -- Yeoman's Row and the sea lord's daughter--A young Beethoven with spots--Jeannie--Living for pleasure--Mr Mossbross goes to Spain--Enemies of promise --New horizons--Te palinure Petens--Paging Mr Smartiboots--Oak coffin--E arrivato weidenfeld -- Bushey lodge--Eastbourne revisited.
Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge.
0712666354
Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974
Authors, English--20th century--Biography
Editors--Great Britain--Biography
Critics--Great Britain--Biography
Cyril Connolly : a life / Jeremy Lewis - xvii, 653 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-623) and index
Ancestral voices--Intimations of eden -- Aut colleger aut Nihil -- The dream brother--Pop and the permanent adolescent--Blokey Balliol--Miehead and after--In limbo--Uncle baldhead and the Affable Hawk -- Yeoman's Row and the sea lord's daughter--A young Beethoven with spots--Jeannie--Living for pleasure--Mr Mossbross goes to Spain--Enemies of promise --New horizons--Te palinure Petens--Paging Mr Smartiboots--Oak coffin--E arrivato weidenfeld -- Bushey lodge--Eastbourne revisited.
Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge.
0712666354
Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974
Authors, English--20th century--Biography
Editors--Great Britain--Biography
Critics--Great Britain--Biography