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Kingsley Amis
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Standard Name: Amis, Kingsley
Connections
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Literary responses | Iris Murdoch | For a first publication, this garnered much positive comment. While The Guardian, Sir John Betjeman
in the Daily Telegraph, and Angus Wilson
in the Observer were comparatively unappreciative, Kingsley Amis
in The Spectator... |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | LR
always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article... |
Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | This was praised by British Book News, which rejoiced to find ES
's astonishing verbal dexterity employed in her later work upon themes of ever-increasing profundity . . . . She is a poet... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | Amis
later identified Jennings as the star of the show, our discovery. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | This novel too was praised by Ivy Compton-Burnett
. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 284 |
Literary responses | Rumer Godden | At the Whitbread ceremony Kingsley Amis
said, I only wish adult fiction was written half as well. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 281 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Taylor | Kingsley Amis
welcomed this book in a style of irony to match its own: a warning to any readers who happened to dislike the prospect of loneliness, old age, and approaching death that the novel... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | FH
remained continuously in print throughout the Victorian period, but her critical reputation and popularity waned before its close and died with modernism. She lingered on in popular memory as the author of popular recitation... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council
(after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. “Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library. |
Literary responses | Pamela Hansford Johnson | This book had the kind of scandalous success that PHJ
later associated with Kingsley Amis
's Lucky Jimnineteen years later. It was considered a signal success, but the kind of success that brought its... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | |
Friends, Associates | Philip Larkin | PL
's friendship with Jim Sutton
, dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press. 136 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jennings | She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin
and Kingsley Amis
. Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Taylor | Friends said that ET
was very shy, but cared very much for very few people. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
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