The Life of Kingsley AmisIn this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. |
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Page 89
... English in 1938 , his second year in the sixth form . This transfer obliged CLS to hire a master equipped to prepare him for examinations in English to scholarship level . Amis was the sole boy from CLS to petition to take such exam ...
... English in 1938 , his second year in the sixth form . This transfer obliged CLS to hire a master equipped to prepare him for examinations in English to scholarship level . Amis was the sole boy from CLS to petition to take such exam ...
Page 123
... English degree . Amis's wartime terms involved a heavy concentration on Old and Middle English texts . The approaches taken to these texts by his tutors and lecturers were textual and philological , or largely textual and philo- logical ...
... English degree . Amis's wartime terms involved a heavy concentration on Old and Middle English texts . The approaches taken to these texts by his tutors and lecturers were textual and philological , or largely textual and philo- logical ...
Page 449
... English was an obvious gap , given its popularity and the fame of the Cambridge English Faculty . Several Peterhouse under- graduates had switched to English as soon as they came up , obliging the college to farm them out to external ...
... English was an obvious gap , given its popularity and the fame of the Cambridge English Faculty . Several Peterhouse under- graduates had switched to English as soon as they came up , obliging the college to farm them out to external ...
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