Edward Upward: Supplementary Papers 1920-2009

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

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Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995) was an English poet and novelist who worked with the themes of social injustice and class struggle. Spender was born in London and educated at University College, Oxford. He was mentored by W. H. Auden with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. He edited Horizon with Cyril Connolly from 1939-1941. Following WW II, Spender devoted his time to criticism, co-editing the magazine Encounter from 1953-1966. Spender also held a number ...

Davie, Donald, 1922-1995

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Donald Davie, a poet, literary critic, and teacher, was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, England on 17 July 1922. His service in the Royal Navy during World War II, which sent him to Russia, sparked an interest in Russian literature; he later wrote his doctoral dissertation and other works on that subject, including Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature . Davie married Doreen John in 1945; they later had three children. He received his bachelor's degree in 1947 and his doctora...

Parker, Peter, b 1954

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Thomson, George Derwent

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Epithet: Marxist classical scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0003a1 ...

Ross, Alan, 1922-2001

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Epithet: poet and editor of 'The London Magazine' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x0001eb ...

Cohen, J.M. (John Michael), 1903-1989

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J. M. (John Michael) Cohen was a prolific translator into English of European literature. After working in his father's manufacturing business from 1925 until 1940, he was moved by a wartime shortage of teachers to become a schoolmaster. In addition to teaching young people, he spent the war years teaching himself Spanish and Russian, and he launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak. In addition to his translations of major works ...

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 ...

Cunningham, Valentine David, b 1944

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Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996

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Anglo-American memoirist, social commentator, journalist and author. From the description of Papers, 1949-1973 (bulk 1961-1973). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122452906 Jessica Mitford, a.k.a. Decca, was a writer and one of the famous Mitford sisters, daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale. Her books include two autobiographies: Daughters and rebels and A fine old conflict. Her many investigative works inclu...

Gascoyne, David, 1916-2001

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000245 David Gascoyne is an English poet and editor. He was born in Salisbury, England, and educated there and in London. He was influenced by French surrealist poets. Gascoyne authored "The Vagrant" (1950), "Night Thought" (1956) and other verse. "Collected Poems" was published in 1978. Gascoyne's "Collected Verse Translations" (1971) received much praise ...

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 ...

Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967

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Vernon Phillips Watkins was born in Wales, and lived nearly his entire life near Swansea. He had written poetry since his youth, and attended Cambridge University for one year before leaving, ultimately taking a job with Lloyd's bank as a clerk. After a serious breakdown, he took a job at a different branch of Lloyd's, staying until he retired in 1966, but refusing advancement--he remained a clerk in order to devote time to his poetry. He became a close friend of Dylan Thomas, and published indi...

Upward, Edward

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Clodd, Alan, 1918-2002

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Drabble, Dame, Margaret, b 1939

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Mengham, Rod, b 1953

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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...

Carpenter, Humphrey

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Epithet: biographer and broadcaster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0001f1 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Biographer. Humphrey Carpenter was born in 1946. From the guide to the Humphrey Carpenter Papers on W. H. Auden, 1978-1982., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Biographer. Humphrey Carpenter was born in 1946. From the description o...

Spender, Natasha, 1919-2010

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wife of the poet Stephen Spender Epithet: pianist and author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x000381 ...

Lehmann, John, 1907-1987

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Epithet: writer and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0001d8 John Lehmann was an English author, poet, journalist, editor, and publisher. He was founder and editor (1936-1950) of NEW WRITING, manager (1938-1946) of Hogarth Press, founder and director (1946-1952) of John Lehmann, Ltd. (publishers), founding editor (1953-1961) of LONDON MAGAZINE, and visiting professor at various universities. He al...

Bachardy, Donald Jess, born 1934

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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...

Bucknell, Katherine, b 1957

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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...