Isn’t London hell?
Seamus Perry: Evelyn Waugh, 10 August 2023
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 480 pp., £16.99, October 2022,978 0 241 58531 3 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 480 pp., £16.99, October 2022,
Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 320 pp., £14.99, October 2022,978 0 241 58529 0 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 320 pp., £14.99, October 2022,
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 336 pp., £14.99, October 2022,978 0 241 58527 6 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 336 pp., £14.99, October 2022,
“... of Rossetti’s best paintings with quite unfeigned reverence: Beata Beatrix, a rapt portrait of Elizabeth Siddall, is acclaimed as ‘the most purely spiritual and devotional work of European art since the fall of the Byzantine Empire’. More remarkable still, Waugh found in Rossetti a dark predicament which sounded rather close to home: ‘the baffled and ... ”