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- catalog abstract ""Critical Times is a dramatic and entertaining history of one of the great literary journals of the world, the Times Literary Supplement. Derwent May unfolds a hundred years of controversy and wit, from the paper's first appearance in the great epoch of Edwardian journalism in 1902, to its role as the voice of contemporary thought." "Revealed here are the identities of the hundreds of anonymous figures who reviewed for the paper, from T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley to George Orwell and Anthony Powell. We see the tentative first writings of Miss V. A. Stephen evolve into the magisterial essays of Virginia Woolf; venomous spats between historians; the emergence of new novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, the mocking reviews with which the first poems of Ezra Pound were greeted, and the review of Evelyn Waugh's first book in which he was described throughout as 'she'."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12301915.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Critical Times is a dramatic and entertaining history of one of the great literary journals of the world, the Times Literary Supplement. Derwent May unfolds a hundred years of controversy and wit, from the paper's first appearance in the great epoch of Edwardian journalism in 1902, to its role as the voice of contemporary thought." "Revealed here are the identities of the hundreds of anonymous figures who reviewed for the paper, from T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley to George Orwell and Anthony Powell. We see the tentative first writings of Miss V. A. Stephen evolve into the magisterial essays of Virginia Woolf; venomous spats between historians; the emergence of new novelists such as Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, the mocking reviews with which the first poems of Ezra Pound were greeted, and the review of Evelyn Waugh's first book in which he was described throughout as 'she'."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. The Beginnings -- 2. The First Year: 1902 -- 3. Edwardian Peace: 1903-07 -- 4. Storm Clouds over the Empire: 1908-13 -- 5. War and Independence: 1914-18 -- 6. Northcliffe Passes, Eliot Arrives 1919-22 -- 7. Peace Among the Vile Bodies: 1923-29 -- 8. Richmond's Twilight Years: 1930-37 -- 9. D.L. Murray Faces the Dictators: 1938-45 -- 10. Stanley Morison's Hard Read: 1945-47 -- 11. The World Pours In: 1948-58 -- 12. The Gaiety of Nations: 1959-74 -- 13. Coming Out: 1974-81 -- 14. The Trouble with Theory: 1982-90 -- 15. Debates and Deaths: 1991-2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-559) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 606 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0007114494".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : HarperCollins,".
- catalog subject "820.9 21".
- catalog subject "Criticism Periodicals.".
- catalog subject "English literature Periodicals History.".
- catalog subject "English periodicals History.".
- catalog subject "Literary periodicals History.".
- catalog subject "PN5130.T566 M39 2001".
- catalog subject "Times literary supplement History.".
- catalog subject "Times literary supplement.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Beginnings -- 2. The First Year: 1902 -- 3. Edwardian Peace: 1903-07 -- 4. Storm Clouds over the Empire: 1908-13 -- 5. War and Independence: 1914-18 -- 6. Northcliffe Passes, Eliot Arrives 1919-22 -- 7. Peace Among the Vile Bodies: 1923-29 -- 8. Richmond's Twilight Years: 1930-37 -- 9. D.L. Murray Faces the Dictators: 1938-45 -- 10. Stanley Morison's Hard Read: 1945-47 -- 11. The World Pours In: 1948-58 -- 12. The Gaiety of Nations: 1959-74 -- 13. Coming Out: 1974-81 -- 14. The Trouble with Theory: 1982-90 -- 15. Debates and Deaths: 1991-2001.".
- catalog title "Critical times : the history of the Times literary supplement / Derwent May.".
- catalog type "text".