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 392
... Princeton equivalents of James Kinsley , Amis's professor and head of department at Swansea . A professor himself , and formidably learned , Blackmur remained an outsider in the Princeton English Department , partly by choice , partly ...
... Princeton equivalents of James Kinsley , Amis's professor and head of department at Swansea . A professor himself , and formidably learned , Blackmur remained an outsider in the Princeton English Department , partly by choice , partly ...
Page 397
... Princeton in the 1950s ' . Princeton was stuffy as well as intimidating , which made the Amis view ' wildly refreshing and a great deal of fun ' . Only later did Rose come to see Amis's influence as limiting . After Amis returned to ...
... Princeton in the 1950s ' . Princeton was stuffy as well as intimidating , which made the Amis view ' wildly refreshing and a great deal of fun ' . Only later did Rose come to see Amis's influence as limiting . After Amis returned to ...
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... Princeton , 398 ; on KA's good treat- ment at Princeton , 418 ; writes to Larkin on return from Princeton , 426 ; returns to Swansea from Princeton , 427 ; portrayed in Mark Rose story , 429-30 ; KA reads works to , 431 ; KA's ...
... Princeton , 398 ; on KA's good treat- ment at Princeton , 418 ; writes to Larkin on return from Princeton , 426 ; returns to Swansea from Princeton , 427 ; portrayed in Mark Rose story , 429-30 ; KA reads works to , 431 ; KA's ...
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