“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Anthony Thwaite
Standard Name: Thwaite, Anthony
Connections
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Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jennings | 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. Crawford, Robert. “Locked and Barred”. London Review of Books, pp. 31-2. 31 |
Textual Production | Philip Larkin | 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (14 October 1988): 1151 Larkin, Philip. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, p. xi - xii. xi |
Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | 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... |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Publishing | Philip Larkin | 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 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Penelope Shuttle | 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... |
Literary responses | Patricia Beer | 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. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 26 |
Literary responses | Anita Desai | 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... |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3824 (20 June 1975): 697 |
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. |
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... |
Timeline
By early September 1986: Kingsley Amis published his novel The Old...
Writing climate item
By early September 1986
Kingsley Amis
published his novelThe Old Devils, which won the Booker Prize from a strong field after a tie with What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
was broken by a casting...
Texts
Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, 2003.
Larkin, Philip. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press, 2003, p. xi - xii.
Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letters to the Editor: Future of Radio”. Times, p. 11.
Larkin, Philip. Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber, 1992.