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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... talk ' . This talk Larkin summarises in a letter to Sutton of 16 June 1941 : ' The solution as he saw it was that women should be the priestesses of the unconscious and help men to regain all the vision they have lost ... What women ...
... talk ' . This talk Larkin summarises in a letter to Sutton of 16 June 1941 : ' The solution as he saw it was that women should be the priestesses of the unconscious and help men to regain all the vision they have lost ... What women ...
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... talk Amis gave to ' a weekend school's held by the Fabians the previous Easter . The talk's chief aim was ' to draw as many hear - hears as possible ' and in this it succeeded . The pamphlet , he admits in its first paragraph , is a ...
... talk Amis gave to ' a weekend school's held by the Fabians the previous Easter . The talk's chief aim was ' to draw as many hear - hears as possible ' and in this it succeeded . The pamphlet , he admits in its first paragraph , is a ...
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... talk about writing now ? K. Nobody . And she's done that too . At this point the facilitator pulls out of the dialogue and asks Jane how she feels . When Jane says she thinks it might still be possible to talk about writing with Amis ...
... talk about writing now ? K. Nobody . And she's done that too . At this point the facilitator pulls out of the dialogue and asks Jane how she feels . When Jane says she thinks it might still be possible to talk about writing with Amis ...
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