John Sutherland, Author . Oxford Univ. $40 (656p) ISBN 978-0-19-517816-6
Hailed as a major poetic talent when T.S. Eliot at Faber & Faber published his first book, Poems, 1933,
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) was a close friend of W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, sharing in his youth their bohemian gay...
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John Sutherland. Reaktion, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78023-648-3
As the title suggests, this entertaining and scholarly, if somewhat eccentric, biography examines the life and works of George Orwell through the lens of his olfactory preoccupations. Sutherland (A Little History of Literature) lost his sense of...
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John Sutherland, Author, Martin Rowson, Illustrator Skyhorse Publishing $22.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-60239-371-4
Author and literature professor Sutherland collects a sundry list of literary fact and trivia into a chaotic assortment of narratives. Organized under a stream-of-consciousness list of themes (""Literary Baked Meats,"" ""Better Than Sex, Some Say,""
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