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Edward Upward: Art and Life
Professor Peter Stansky
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Description for Edward Upward: Art and Life
Hardcover. Biography of the influential, lesser known member of the W.H. Auden circle. Peter Stansky tells the fascinating story of Edward Upward's conflict between art and life. At the same time he colourfully provides significant insight into English society during the twentieth century and explores the special nature of English radicalism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 35. Weight in Grams: 884.
The novelist and short story writer Edward Upward (1903-2009) is famous for being the unknown member of the W. H. Auden circle, though was revered by his peers -- Auden, Day Lewis, Isherwood and Spender -- for his intellect, high literary gifts and unswerving political commitment. His lifelong friendship with Christopher Isherwood was forged at school and university, with each regarding the other as the first reader of his work. At Cambridge they invented the bizarre village of Mortmere, which with its combination of reality and fantasy had an important role in shaping the dominant British literary culture of the ... Read more
The novelist and short story writer Edward Upward (1903-2009) is famous for being the unknown member of the W. H. Auden circle, though was revered by his peers -- Auden, Day Lewis, Isherwood and Spender -- for his intellect, high literary gifts and unswerving political commitment. His lifelong friendship with Christopher Isherwood was forged at school and university, with each regarding the other as the first reader of his work. At Cambridge they invented the bizarre village of Mortmere, which with its combination of reality and fantasy had an important role in shaping the dominant British literary culture of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910392843
SKU
V9781910392843
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99-50
About Professor Peter Stansky
Peter Stansky studied at Yale and Cambridge and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he taught before moving to the University of Stanford, California, becoming the holder of the endowed Frances and Charles Field Chair in History. He has written extensively on modern British culture, particularly on William Morris, George Orwell, the Bloomsbury Group, the London Blitz, as well as ... Read more
Reviews for Edward Upward: Art and Life
'[Upward's] unique blending of the past, in art as well as in politics, still has lessons for the future.' - Frank Kermode; 'As a painter of hallucinatory dreamscapes - a kind of prose Magritte - Upward at his finest still has no peer.' - Independent