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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... seems to me to be about ten to one ; this , of course , is not the case , but what struck me most forcibly was their ... seem to bear this without a murmur , but I am sure this is merely outward show and they are really seething inside ...
... seems to me to be about ten to one ; this , of course , is not the case , but what struck me most forcibly was their ... seem to bear this without a murmur , but I am sure this is merely outward show and they are really seething inside ...
Page 145
... seems to be alluded to is Amis's uncertainty about the affair , his sense that he may be deluding himself about it . When the course at Catterick finished in October , Amis was given leave , the first part of which he seems to have ...
... seems to be alluded to is Amis's uncertainty about the affair , his sense that he may be deluding himself about it . When the course at Catterick finished in October , Amis was given leave , the first part of which he seems to have ...
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... seems to have come to Larkin in 1957 , was finished in December 1959. It makes clear the compet- itiveness , the intermingling of envy and superiority , in his feelings towards Amis in the 1950s . Larkin envied Amis's worldly success ...
... seems to have come to Larkin in 1957 , was finished in December 1959. It makes clear the compet- itiveness , the intermingling of envy and superiority , in his feelings towards Amis in the 1950s . Larkin envied Amis's worldly success ...
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