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Bernard Bergonzi

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British writer (1929–2016)

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Works
22

Top works

  • Descartes and the animals
  • Godolphin & other poems
  • War Poets and Other Subjects
  • The Situation of the Novel, Critical Essays in Modern Literature
  • The early H. G. Wells; a study of the scientific romances

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1947-10-21
jazzpost-bop

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Quotes

  • As Wells insists, many of Verne's inventions have materialized since his time. travel is a commonplace, and the circumnavigation of the moon is more than a possibility. Well's imaginings, however, remain as unattainable now as when he wrote: no one has yet contrived to travel through time, or ; we are still unable to , nor can we .
  • The s whom we admire to-day do not appear to love their s, and the s who appraise their books show no signs of doing so either. For a writer or critic to show delight in a character would would seem to-day rather naïve, an old-fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens and Surtees. Characters, it seems, are no longer objects of affection.
  • Arnold Rattenbury was too young to be very active in the , but in the early he was friendly with several older Communist writers who had been. ... Although I make limiting judgements on Auden in the following pages, his centrality in the seems to me unmistakable. Unlike other hostile critics of 'orthodoxy', Mr Rattenbury does give a hostage to fortune by proposing an alternative.

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