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Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...

Cole, Barry

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Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

Smith, John Edward Mackenzie Lucie-, b 1933

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Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973

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English experimental novelist and poet. From the description of House mother normal : typescript of page 5, 1970 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759123192 ...

Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003

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d. 2003. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80310921 ...

Ewart, Gavin

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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008

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English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, left-wing political activist and poet. From the description of Landscape : typescript with autograph revisions : [England?, 1967]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270914943 English playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and poet. From the description of Harold Pinter Collection, 1960-1980. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590489 ...

Neville, John, 1925-2011

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English actor and producer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Barnet, Herts., to Denys Blakelock, 1957 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872045 ...

Lee, Laurie

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Ghose, Zulfikar, b 1935

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Smith, A. C. H. (Anthony Charles H.), 1935-

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Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000

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Author, professor, and literary critic. Knighted in the year 2000 for his services to literaure. From the description of Papers, 1950-2000. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 600072072 After teaching fellowships in America at Indiana University and Yale, Malcolm Bradbury began his career as a professor the same week his first novel Eating People Is Wrong was published in 1959. Much of his creative writing concerns academic subjects, and his critical works reflect his ...

Constable and Company, publishers, of London, 1795-1999

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Beresford, Bruce, b 1940

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Kilmartin, Terence

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Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974

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Jones, David Eugene Henry, Pryce-, b 1936

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Redington, John Michael, b 1927

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Reisz, Karel

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Theroux, Paul Edward, b 1941

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Sillitoe, Alan

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Burns, Alan, 1929-....

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Arden, John, b 1930

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Benveniste, Asa

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Williams, Heathcote, b 1941

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Redgrove, Peter

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British poet. From the description of Poems written in a printed book, 1971 Feb. 23. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481673 Peter William Redgrove, the poet, writer, and playwright, was born on 2 January 1932 and died on 16 June 2003. He was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at Leeds University 1962-1965, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996. For fuller details of his life and achievements s...

Causley, Charles, 1917-2003

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Charles Stanley Causley, poet, teacher and broadcaster, the only son of Charles Causley and Laura Bartlett, was born in Launceston, Cornwall on 24th August 1917 and educated at Launceston National School, Horwell Grammar School, Launceston College and Peterborough Training College. His father, a groom and gardener, died in 1924 from tuberculosis exacerbated due to gas exposure during the First World War, and Charles left school at 15 to work in a builder's office and then for an ele...

Macbeth, George

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MacBeth was born in Scotland on Jan. 19, 1932; graduated with honors in Classical Greats, New College, Oxford, 1955; worked at British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), London, 1955-76; producer, BBC Overseas Talks Department, 1957-58 and producer, BBC Talks Department 1958-76; regarded as a powerful influence on British poetry, his radio programs featured new poets, winning praise for his ability to recognize poetic excellence; wrote novels and nearly twenty volumes of verse, including The broken place...

Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008

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Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he was a noted left-wing cultural figure who gave frequent readings. His poems on such topics as nuclear war, Vietnam, prisons and racism were part of the English folklore of the Left, and his work was often read and sung at demonstrations and rallies. His work for the Royal Shakespeare Company included Peter Brook's US and the English version of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade. Epithet: poe...

British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Leavis, F.R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978

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Frank Raymond Leavis was a literary critic, educator, and author. He was born in Cambridge, educated at Cambridge University, and later taught there. He is chiefly remembered as an influential but controversial literary critic, who argued for the importance of literature, and approached criticism with standards of intelligence and morality. Many of his books grew from essays published in the journal Scrutiny, which he co-founded with his wife, critic Q.D. Leavis. His private life was often unset...

Scannell, Vernon

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Vernon Scannell, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and free-lance author, poet, and broadcaster since 1962, was born on 23 January 1922 in Lincolnshire and educated at Leeds University. For fuller details of his life and achievements see Who's who . From the guide to the Literary papers of Vernon Scannell, together with an autograph letter, 1962-1967, (Leeds University Library) Epithet: né John Vernon Bain, poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts C...

Secker and Warburg, publishers, 1936-2005

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Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, publishers, 1868-

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Hall, Sir, Peter Reginald Frederick, b 1930

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Oman, Julia Trevelyan.

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Bragg Melvyn b 1939

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Heppenstall, Rayner, 1911-1981

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(John) Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981), the novelist, poet, critic, BBC producer, and criminal historian, was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, on 27 July 1911 and educated at Huddersfield College and Leeds University, where he graduated in Modern Languages in 1932, and obtained a Diploma in Education in 1933. After a brief period teaching in Dagenham, he moved to London to start a career as a freelance writer and critic. Here he met many other writers and wrote most of his published poetry before ...

Lovelock, Yann, b 1939

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Russell, Ken, 1927-2011

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Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000

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Author, professor, and literary critic. Knighted in the year 2000 for his services to literaure. From the description of Papers, 1950-2000. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 600072072 After teaching fellowships in America at Indiana University and Yale, Malcolm Bradbury began his career as a professor the same week his first novel Eating People Is Wrong was published in 1959. Much of his creative writing concerns academic subjects, and his critical works reflect his ...

Brooks, Jeremy

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Rogers, Deborah, fl 1967-2012

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Drabble, Dame, Margaret, b 1939

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Ray, Cyril, 1908-1991

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Smithson, Alison Margaret

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Alison Margaret Smithson (1928-1993), and Peter Denham Smithson (1923-2003) were among the most influential British architects of the latter half of the 20th century. They developed an eloquent and rigorous approach to architecture and urbanism, expressed in both practice and writing. They married in 1949 and set up a practice together that was to be one of the most remarkable British architectural partnerships, notable for such landmarks as the Hunstanton Secondary Modern School in Norfolk (194...

Calman, Mel, 1931-

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Waugh, Auberon

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Sergeant, Howard, 1914-1987

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Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991

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Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010

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Sir Frank Kermode was one of the most distinguished literary critics of his time. Co-editor of the magazine ENCOUNTER with Melvin J. Lasky from around 1958 to 1967, he resigned after learning in 1967 of the covert CIA funding of the magazine. He is best known for his studies of Shakespeare (1963-1965) and D. H. Lawrence (1973), his editorship of THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (2 vols., 1973), and his provocative studies THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (1967), THE GENESIS OF SECRE...

Hamilton, Ian, 1938-2001

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Bergonzi, Bernard, b 1929

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Arlott, John

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Berger, John Peter, b 1926

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