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The Unquiet Grave - Cyril Connolly

unforgiving inhabitants of the land, who murdered him for his clothes. His body was left unburied on the seashore. Or, Palinurus, the critic persona chosen by Cyril Connolly, founder of the literary magazine, Horizon in 1939, contributor to The New Statesman, The Times and The Observer, writer and critic during (and of) the Second world War, receiver of a CBE in 1972...dead in 1974...'Dare I suppose that a cure has been accomplished, the bones of Palinurus buried and his ghost laid?' The Unquiet Grave is an unraveling cogitation, a tapeworm of contemplation, scurrying from ancient lands and poets, listening to the whispers of long dead Frenchmen, casting ...

Enemies of Promise - Cyril Connolly

ceased to be of importance a long time before the original publishing date of this book (1938). Final thought: compare this laying bare of the soul and psyche with The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and Cyril Connolly seems justifiably consigned to mostly footnote status in the history of EngLit. He was almost certainly a better human being than Waugh, but certainly far less talented. ...