Swift radiant morning
D.J. Enright, 21 February 1991
The Collected Letters of Charles HamiltonSorley
edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Cecil Woolf, 310 pp., £25, November 1990,9780900821547 Show More
edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Cecil Woolf, 310 pp., £25, November 1990,
Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters
edited by R.K.R Thornton.
Mid-Northumberland Arts Group/Carcanet, 579 pp., £25, February 1991,0 85635 941 6 Show More
edited by R.K.R Thornton.
Mid-Northumberland Arts Group/Carcanet, 579 pp., £25, February 1991,
“... Charles Sorley must have been the most brilliant of all the young poets who died in the First World War. Yet ‘brilliant’, with its flashy, brittle connotations, isn’t the right word. He was undeniably clever, and forthright, but also good-humoured and modest, often very funny, shrewd and serious, but never (the young man’s vice) priggish ... ”