Lives and Letters: A. R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S. S. Koteliansky : 1906-1957New Directions Publishing, 1978 - 306 páginas Virginia Woolf, in a mixture of distaste and admiration, called them "the literary underworld," although their names were in the mainstream in the England of World War I and the 1920s. Today for the most part unfamiliar, then they connected variously, and not unimportantly, with Shaw and H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and D.H. Lawrence, not to overlook Pound, Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Edwin Muir, among countless others. The pages of A. R. Orage's The New Age and John Middleton Murry's numerous periodicals (Rhythm, The Blue Review, The Athenaeum, Adelphi) were the intellectual forums of their day, the mirrors of the trends in taste and social concerns. The five principals in John Carswell's gracious, perceptive reminiscence were not of a single coterie. Rather, they shared in a particular kind of literary life: professional without being academic, dedicated without being regimented, all were devoted to careers which were often the only source of their livelihoods. In the final analysis, none were creative giants: Katherine Mansfield now remembered less for her stories, and Murry for his criticism, than as Lawrence's Gudrun and Gerald (Women in Love); "Kot's" role in introducing Russian literature becomes a dim footnote; the wild Beatrice Hastings perhaps glimpsed in a biography of Modigliani in Bohemian Paris; the fine imprint of Orage's editorial genius, faded. Yet they were intrinsic to their time, and their serious and passionate lives and letters are quickened in these glowing pages. |
Contenido
Preface page | 13 |
The Schoolmaster | 15 |
The Moongirl from Port Elizabeth | 28 |
The Rise of the New Age | 39 |
The Marmozet | 52 |
The Two Tigers | 66 |
Sentimental Journeys | 83 |
Defying the War | 98 |
The Harmonious Development of Man | 174 |
The Adelphi | 194 |
The New English Weekly and its Shadows | 210 |
The Adelphi Hero¹ | 228 |
Acacia Road | 259 |
Retrospect | 269 |
The Wills of Katherine Mansfield and D H Lawrence | 280 |
References | 282 |
Impressions of Bandol Paris and Garsington | 113 |
Katherine and her Destiny | 134 |
The Decline of the New Age ΙΟ | 144 |
The Athenaeum | 156 |
Bibliography | 294 |
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