Cyril Connolly : a life / Jeremy Lewis

By: Lewis, Jeremy [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English London : Pimlico, 1998©1997 Description: xvii, 653 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0712666354 (paperback)Subject(s): Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974 | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography | Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.