Kingsley Amis

A couple of the poems in this volume (dedicated to Kingsley Amis ) date back to 1946. A number of them were later included in The Less Deceived and one in an edition (not the...

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...

EJ was a twentieth-century English poet writing on family, literary, and religious subjects. Peter Levi calls her maybe the last poet of what may be called the soul. Early in her career she...

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...

In the second of these years the student editors, Kingsley Amis and James Michie , made their selection under the specific rubric of toughness and modernity.

Amis later identified Jennings as the star of the show, our discovery.

In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove welcomed EJ as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. Other...

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

She found it deeply depressing that this act of violence should have come as no surprise to herself and Kingsley Amis , with their recent experience of Nashville, Tennessee. Murder, she observed, does not come...

EJH married as her third husband the novelist Kingsley Amis , at Marylebone town hall.

EJH and Kingsley Amis moved out from London to a house on Hadley Common near Barnet called Lemmons.

EJH left her third husband, Kingsley Amis . She told each of her staff, but not Amis, that she was not coming back, and went for a week to a health farm, to let him...

Kingsley Amis , divorced husband of EJH , died in hospital of pneumonia, following a fall and a suspected stroke.

EJH 's assignments in 1974 included, as well as the Rose Kennedy interview, acting as one of the three judges of the Booker Prize. (Another judge this year was A. S. Byatt .) Howard received...

The Times Literary Supplement defined the subject-matter here as the flux of relationships at a level of intimacy which demands the most delicate investigation if we are to discover truth. When Howard was already the...