Tag: Biography

Another look at Doris Lessing

This is a very good article about Doris Lessing from the Washington Post in 1994

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A writer who began to get published late in life

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/01/penelope-fitzgerald-hermione-lee-reviewof

 

Penelope-Fitzgerald-A-Life

This is a review of Penelope Fitzgerald’s biography by the well known Hermione Lee.

But the main reason I am putting  it  here is that it will tell you about her lovely books,not to mention her unusual life.She was the niece of the Fr Ronald Knox,the famous convert to Catholicism.Her grandfather was an Anglican Bishop.Despite all that plus a first from Oxford she managed to live  a  life of weird poverty….

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“The evil of banality”

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2009/10/the_evil_of_banality.html

A very interesting and disturbing discussion of books about Heidegger and Arendt.Heidegger’s silence after the war about the

And looking at the quote below it seems they lacked wisdom

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Gerard Manley Hopkins – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gerard Manley Hopkins – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I thought someone might like to read this,There us some explanation about his use of rhyme and rhythm.I find his poems very rich