RL
wrote verse throughout her life. Much of it is personal and occasional. Her abandonment by her lover, C. Day-Lewis
, produced one melancholy lament and one bitter little satirical dirge.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
291, 317
She wrote...
Textual Production
W. H. Auden
While an undergraduate at Oxford (from October 1925) he discovered T. S. Eliot
, and was for a while obsessively modernist, as he had previously been traditional in the style of Thomas Hardy
. He...
Textual Production
Phyllis Bentley
PB
published her autobiography, calling it "O Dreams, O Destinations", which is quoted from Words over All by Cecil Day Lewis
.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rosamond Lehmann
The novel exhibits the resignation, bitterness, and exhaustion of the times (and possibly the ending of Lehmann's relationship with C. Day-Lewis
). It also contains humour which comes close to madness in the face of...