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Sir Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley Amis , 1922-95, English novelist. He attended St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1949) and for some 20 years taught at Oxford, Swansea, and Cambridge and in the United States before he could afford to become a full-time writer. His first and best-known novel, Lucky Jim (1954), a brilli... Read more
angry young men
angry young men term applied to a group of English writers of the 1950s whose heroes share certain rebellious and critical attitudes toward society. This phrase, which was originally taken from the title of Leslie Allen Paul's autobiography, Angry Young Man (1951), became current with the product... Read more
Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt 1920-94, American poet, b. New Providence, Iowa. A librarian and editor, she wrote little until the 1960s. Her first major magazine publication was in 1974, and her first commercially published volume of poems, The Kingfisher (1983), appeared when she was 63. Later volumes are What ... Read more
Martin Amis
Martin Amis ā´mĬs , 1949-, English novelist; son of Kingsley Amis . The younger Amis, who turned from literary journalism to fiction, invites comparison with his father through his choice of career and style. Often writing satire so bitterly sardonic that it goes far beyond the cau... Read more
Anatole France
Anatole France , pseud. of Jacques Anatole Thibault , 1844-1924, French writer. He was probably the most prominent French man of letters of his time. Among his best-remembered works is L'Île des pingouins (1908, tr. Penguin Island, 1909), an allegorical novel satirizing French history. ... Read more
Amy Robsart
Amy Robsart , 1532-60, maiden name of the wife of Robert Dudley, later earl of Leicester , a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England. When Lady Dudley was found dead at the foot of a staircase in Cumnor Hall, Berkshire, rumor had it that her husband had arranged her murder so that he might be free... Read more
Amy Tan
Amy Tan 1952-, American novelist, b. Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural differences among them, concentrating on women's experiences. Tan's novels include The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kit... Read more
David Hare
David Hare 1947-, British playwright. Hare is a prominent member of the British theatrical left. A founder of the Portable Theatre and the Joint Stock, he became resident dramatist and literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, London (1967-71), and at the Nottingham Playhouse (1973). His plays a... Read more
Jean Paul Marat
Jean Paul Marat , 1743-93, French revolutionary, b. Switzerland. He studied medicine in England, acquired some repute as a doctor in London and Paris, and wrote scientific and medical works (some in English), but was frustrated in his attempts to win official recognition for his work. His Philosoph... Read more
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant , 1850-93, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family. He worked in a government office at Paris and became known c.1880 as the most brilliant of the circle of Zola. He poured out a prodigious number of short stories, novels, plays, and travel sketches unti... Read more

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Sir Kingsley Amis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Girl (1994). Of Amis's other works...while The Green Man (1969) is a ghost...volumes of poetry, Amis published numerous...Leader, ed., The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000); biographies...Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British... Read more
Fussell, Paul
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...attitudes toward World War I; and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989). He has also written Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars (1980) and The Anti‐Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters (1994). Read more

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The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/21/1994; ; 154 words ; ...friend and admirer of Kingsley Amis for nearly forty years, believes Mr. Amis's non-fiction has...considers an important Man of Letters not wholly mischaracterized...productive life, Amis has waged war against...turned story-teller, Amis has fought his good...or artistic. Mr. ... Read more
Charles Kingsley: divine love, divine order.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Victorian country parson, Charles Kingsley. The poet had spent his late...moaning. A few other lines of Kingsley's verse also survive, I think...of Quotations also credits Kingsley with More ways of killing a...saying to my suspicious eye. Kingsley's poems still showed up in...Improving Gems, has ... Read more
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...in reviewing Larkin's Letters: in all my experience...particularly in the earlier letters and to male cronies like Kingsley Amis. This makes it impossible...again in the earlier letters where he is forming...Tolkien -- each one a man of distinction. They...himself more so. His ... Read more
Getting to know Philip Larkin: the life and letters.
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...and Larkin's Letters - roused a...recur in the letters and that Motion...passages in the letters. To me he is...throughout the letters as a heroic...than any man could be expected...he writes to Kingsley Amis: . . . You...to know the man. If he does...turn to his ... Read more
Conquest's Conquest: A man and his admirers.(author Robert Conquest)
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/9/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...anyway. Currently, Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens...as well as great rivals. Amis's book is called Koba the...several personal matters. Amis addresses Hitchens directly...project is to claim the great man for the Left, or for some...They're dedicated to the same man, Robert Conquest. ... Read more
The Novelist's Left Hand.(The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Modern Age; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...1971-2000, by Martin Amis, New York: Talk...2001. xv +506 pp. KINGSLEY AMIS, MARTIN AMIS: one can scarcely...on the side of Amis fils, who, still...established himself as a man of letters in the traditional...garner of Martin Amis's journalism, the...Don Juan in Hull, ... Read more
Song of Himself.(Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/28/2000; ; 700+ words ; Experience, by Martin Amis (Talk/Hyperion, 406 pp...crown prince is Martin Amis. The much-scrutinized...apparent of comic author Kingsley Amis, Martin went on to become...called him the nastiest man in England, some the funniest, but Amis's reputation increased...Not surprisingly, when ... Read more
School magazines.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ROBERT GRAVES and Kingsley Amis had their first poems printed in school...James Joyce: `As a very sensitive young man, James Joyce experienced seething discontent...was also a series of would-be amusing letters purporting to be from an Eton boy to... Read more
The poet who was right. (author Robert Conquest's criticism of communism in his books from 1961-91) (includes tributes from Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/17/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...TRIBUTE to an exceptionally worthy man is to realize once more that there...equality in the republic of arts and letters. Its structure is strictly hierarchical...England in the 1950s, together with Kingsley Amis, Dennis Enright, Donald Davie, Philip... Read more
They turn on Larkin. (Philip Larkin) (Poetry Today)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...collection of Larkin's letters, edited by Anthony Thwaite...Larkin has become a man on whom it is embarrassingly...Labour in a letter to Kingsley Amis: Fuck the whole lot of...nutcase, and the meanest man he ' d ever met. Peter...as a prematurely old man who armored himself in... Read more