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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Edward Upward; Edward Upward; Edward Upward |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Stansky |
ISBN: | 9781910392843 1910392847 |
OCLC Number: | 940933873 |
Description: | 368 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Peter Stansky. |
Abstract:
Biography of the influential, lesser known member of the W.H. Auden circle. Peter Stansky tells the fascinating story of Edward Upward's conflict between art and life. At the same time he colourfully provides significant insight into English society during the twentieth century and explores the special nature of English radicalism.
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'[Upward's] unique blending of the past, in art as well as in politics, still has lessons for the future.' - Frank Kermode; 'As a painter of hallucinatory dreamscapes - a kind of prose Magritte - Upward at his finest still has no peer.' - Independent Read more...
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