A Man of Contradictions
A Life of A. L. Rowse
Erschienen am 18. April 2013
388 Seiten
978-0-571-30286-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
He proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous and affectionate yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan: A. L. Rowse was a man of many contradictions.
In this clear-sighted and absorbing biography, Richard Ollard examines the many sides of Rowse's Protean personality to reveal a man who, whatever he was responding to - public affairs, the arts, natural beauty or events in his personal life - did so with tremendous energy and passion.
'An urbane study of the celebrated historian.' Antonia Fraser, Daily Mail
'Strikes a perfect balance between the Jekyll Rowse and the Hyde Rowse.' Bevis Hillier, Spectator
'Excellent.' Katherine Duncan-Jones, TLS
In this clear-sighted and absorbing biography, Richard Ollard examines the many sides of Rowse's Protean personality to reveal a man who, whatever he was responding to - public affairs, the arts, natural beauty or events in his personal life - did so with tremendous energy and passion.
'An urbane study of the celebrated historian.' Antonia Fraser, Daily Mail
'Strikes a perfect balance between the Jekyll Rowse and the Hyde Rowse.' Bevis Hillier, Spectator
'Excellent.' Katherine Duncan-Jones, TLS
Weitere Details
Auflage
Main
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Dateigröße
6,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-30286-4 (9780571302864)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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Person
Richard Ollard
Inhalt
- Intro
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1: Contradictions
- 2: Origins
- 3: Education
- 4: Christ Church
- 5: Success
- 6: 1926
- 7: Germany
- 8: Friendships
- 9: Home and Abroad
- 10: Early Publications
- 11: A Man of the Thirties
- 12: Arts and Letters
- 13: Return to Oxford
- 14: Battles Lost and Won
- 15: Tudor Cornwall and A Cornish Childhood
- 16: Poetry and the Poet
- 17: The Riches of Friendship
- 18: Becoming an Institution
- 19: War in Heaven
- 20: The New World Redresses the Balance
- 21: Some Softening Gleam
- 22: Always Scribble, Scribble, Scribble The Elizabethan Age
- 23: Portraits
- 24: Shakespeare
- 25: A Man of Letters
- 26: Surplus Energy
- 27: Cornwall: In my End is my Beginning
- 28: Sunset
- 29: A Life
- 30: Bells Across the Water
- APPENDIX A: Memorandum of Wardenship Election 1952
- APPENDIX B: Letter to Lord Salter
- APPENDIX C: The Dark Lady
- APPENDIX D: Rowse's Finances
- APPENDIX E: A Colleague's Judgment
- APPENDIX F: Some Dates
- APPENDIX G: A Chronological Listing of works by A. L. Rowse mentioned in the text
- APPENDIX H: Guest list for lunch given by ALR for Allan Nevins and Irving Stone in Hall at All Souls, 20 June 1965
- Appendix I: List of Correspondents
- Index
- A, B, C
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
- Plates
- Copyright
