Anthony Thwaite

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...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

Reviewers continued on a note of faint praise. Anthony Thwaite , for instance, found in PB 's work an air of appraising experience in small mouthfuls, fastidious, ironical.British Book News found her solid...

Salman Rushdie called this a magnificent book that brilliantly portrayed the world of male friendship in order to demonstrate how this, too, is a part of the process by which women are excluded from power...

Martin Dodsworth in the Guardian reckoned this collection to be unequalled in our contemporary poetry as a testimony to the patience, persistence, and power of the imagination under duress.Anthony Thwaite

PL was only eleven when he first reached print, with a contribution to his school magazine, The Coventrian, which Anthony Thwaite has called an extraordinarily assured, facetious performance in his Oxford Dictionary of National...

PS 's poem The View from the Window (in which the speaker watches the rain and contemplates a forthcoming journey to the frozen north) appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on 30 August 1974, together...

Anthony Thwaite edited PL 's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion published a biography in 1993. Both Alan Bennett and Martin Amis have edited selections of Larkin's...

Some of the poems feature observation of landscape from his recent year in California. Anthony Thwaite commented a few years later that Heaney had deliberately excluded from Wintering Out some poems he had already...

PL 's Collected Poems were posthumously published, edited by Anthony Thwaite and arranged in chronological order of composition by means of Larkin's carefully dated working notebooks.

FA 's first anthology, edited with Anthony Thwaite , was New Poetry Four, Hutchinson , 1978.

EJ had the habit of sending quantities of undifferentiated manuscripts to her Carcanet Press editor, Michael Schmidt , for him to sort, select, and arrange for print.She left a vast body of correspondence...