Buy this book on-line MAY, DERWENT: : CRITICAL TIMES: THE HISTORY OF THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTLONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2001. ISBN 0007114494.
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'Critical Times' is a dramatic and entertaining history of one of the great literary journals of the world,the Times Literary Supplement.
Derwent May unfolds a hundred years of controversy and wit,from the paper's first appearance in the great epoch of Edwardian journalism in 1902,to its role as the voice of contemporary thought.
Revealed are the identities of the hundreds of anonymous figures who reviewed for the paper,from T.S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley to George Orwell and Anthony Powell.We see the tentative first writings of Miss V. A. Stephen evolve into the magisterial essays of Virginia Woolf; venomous spats between historians; the emergence of new novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis,the mocking reviews with which the first poems of Ezra Pound were greeted,and the review of Evelyn Waugh's first book in which he was decribed throughout as 'she'.
There are hoaxes and rows,contributions from poets ranging from Rudyard Kipling to Philip Larkin,and rich evocations of the changing atmosphere of life in Britain. Through the words of its columnists,we see the nation agonising morally in the First World War,and united in anger in the Second World War.We also watch the paper's battle to survive and the gallant defence of the paper's independence by one editor after another.
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