‘Come, my friend,’ said Smirnoff
Joanna Kavenna: The radical twenties, 1 April 1999
The Radical Twenties: Aspects of Writing, Politics and Culture
by John Lucas.
Five Leaves, 263 pp., £11.99, January 1997,0 907123 17 1 Show More
by John Lucas.
Five Leaves, 263 pp., £11.99, January 1997,
“... alone in forecasting the unravelling of everything. Hardy wrote in 1914 of his feeling ‘that we are living in a more brutal age than that, say, of Elizabeth’, which ‘does not inspire one to write hopeful poetry, or even conjectural prose, but simply make[s] one sit still in an apathy, and watch the clock spinning backwards’. For Henry James, the ... ”