Identity area
Reference code
Davies/Box 13-15/Box 14/3
Unique identifier
GB 275 Davies/Box 13-15/Box 14/3
Title
'Books of the Quarter', Criterion 15:61 (July 1936), 752-5
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Item
Extent and medium
4p paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1909-1984)
Biographical history
Entered St John's 1928. Jebb Studentship and Le Bas Prize 1931. BA 1931. Author of English Surrealist's manifesto, 1936 and co-curator of Surrealist Exhibition, London 1936. Surrealist prose poem 'Petron' published 1935. Published three novels 1950-60, 'The Papers of Andrew Melmoth'(1960) being the best known. Appointed College Rat Catcher 1967. Concentrated his critical talents on Wordsworth's poetry for last 20 years of his life, becoming a Trustee of Dove Cottage and having 'Wordsworth and the Worth of Words' published posthumously in 1986.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Review of Narration by Gertrude Stein.