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Archive for October, 2002A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 31st, 2002 Future writer, gardener, and diarist John Evelyn (Diary, 1706) is born in Wotton, Surrey in 1620.
Evelyn’s famous Diary has been somewhat overshadowed by the more sensational one covering much the same period by Samuel Pepys, but it demonstrates bits of expertise in several fields, including art and the cultivation of trees, that were beyond his contemporary. His Diary is mandatory reading for students of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell and the Great Plague and Fire of London. Suggested Reading Diary Evelyn’s Diary: 1641-1705, first published 1818.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 30th, 2002 Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The Rivals, 1775), is born in 1751 in Dublin. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, b. October 30, 1751, d. 1816
Suggested Reading Drama The Rivals, 1775. The School for Scandal, 1777. The Critic, 1779.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryOctober 30th, 2002 In 1885, American poet Ezra Pound (The Cantos, 1917-69) is born in Hailey, Idaho. Ezra Pound, b. October 30, 1885, d. 1972
Suggested Reading Poetry Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Cantos, 1917-1969.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 29th, 2002 English novelist Henry Green (Loving, 1945) is born Henry Vincent Yorke near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Henry Green, b. October 29, 1905, d. 1973
Suggested Reading Novels Blindness, 1926. Living, 1929. Party Going, 1939. Caught, 1943. Loving, 1945. Back, 1946. Concluding, 1948. Nothing, 1950. Doting, 1952. Memoir Pack My Bag, 1940.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 29th, 2002 Scottish biographer James Boswell (The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., 1791) is born in Edinburgh in 1740.
In his biography of the incomparable Samuel Johnson, Boswell virtually created a new form and also brought to life one of the most vivid men of his time. The discovery in the 1920s of a cache of his private papers led to the publication of a dozen books of diaries and letters, which taken collectively give us our best view and understanding of the eighteenth century in England. Suggested Reading Works Account of Corsica, 1768. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1785. Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. Journals 12 volumes, from Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-63 to Boswell: The Great Biographer, 1789-93.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 28th, 2002 In 1903, English novelist Evelyn Waugh (A Handful of Dust, 1934) is born in Hampstead. Arthur St. John (Evelyn) Waugh, b. October 28, 1903, d. 1966 Suggested Reading Novels Decline and Fall, 1928. Vile Bodies, 1930. Black Mischief, 1932. A Handful of Dust, 1934. Scoop, 1938. Put Out More Flags, 1952. The Sword of Honour World War II trilogy: Men at Arms, 1952, Officers and Gentlemen, 1955, and Unconditional Surrender, 1961. Brideshead Revisited, 1945. The Loved One, 1948. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 1957. Stories Mr. Loveday’s Outing and Other Sad Stories, 1936. Love Among the Ruins, 1953. Tactical Exercise, 1954. Travel Labels, A Mediterranean Journal, 1930. Remote People, 1932. Ninety-Two Days, The Account of a Tropical Journey Through British Guiana and Part of Brazil, 1934. Waugh in Abyssinia, 1936. Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson, 1939. The Holy Places, 1953. A Tourist in Africa, 1960. Biography Rossetti: His Life and Works, 1928. Edmund Campion, 1935. The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, 1959. Autobiography and Other A Little Learning, 1964. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 1976. A Little Order, 1977. The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, 1980. The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, 1980.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 27th, 2002 In 1914, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog, 1940) is born in Swansea. Dylan Thomas, b. October 27, 1914, d. 1953
Suggested Reading Poetry 18 Poems, 1934. Twenty-five Poems, 1936. Deaths and Entrances, 1946. Collected Poems 1934-1952, 1952. Prose works Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, 1940. Adventures in the Skin Trade, 1953. A Child’s Christmas in Wales, 1954. Drama Under Milk Wood, 1954.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 27th, 2002 American poet Sylvia Plath (Ariel, 1965) is born in Boston in 1932.
We’ll never know what Sylvia Plath might have accomplished had she been able to put aside her demons. She was writing the best poetry of her life just before she died, and her novel The Bell Jar is a small classic. Suggested Reading Poetry The Colossus and Other Poems, 1960. Ariel, 1965. Plath:Poems, 1998. Prose The Bell Jar, 1963. The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1982.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 27th, 2002 In 1795, English poet John Keats (Endymion, 1818) is born in Finsbury Pavement.
Keats died so young that he was able to produce only a small amount of poetry, none of it appreciated much in his lifetime. In fact it is said the savage reviews of Endymion precipitated his death. The poems he did write, however, have taken their place among the finest in the English language. Suggested Reading Poetry Poems, 1816. Endymion, 1818.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryOctober 25th, 2002 English novelist Zadie Smith (White Teeth, 2000) is born Sadie Smith in London in 1975. Zadie Smith, b. October 25, 1975
Suggested Reading Novels White Teeth, 2000. The Autograph Man, 2002. On Beauty, 2005. NW, 2012. Essays Changing My Mind, 2009. Other The Book of Other People, 2007.
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