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John P. Rossi on The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh.

A Coleridge poem has been given a trigger warning. But we think the woke police should go much further

David Fleming's book Hellfire sheds light on the Hypocrites Club – where Evelyn Waugh made merry with Anthony Powell and Henry Green

From 1993: The second volume of a biography of Evelyn Waugh occasioned John W. Donohue, S.J., to offer a survey of the great English Catholic writer's life.

The building was even selected for the Historic Houses Associations new literary trail, which included more than 40 homes across the country linked to famous writers. Madresfield near Malvern is the home of the Lygon family, whose eldest sons took the title of Earl Beauchamp from 1815 until 1979. Waugh met Hugh Lygon at Oxford in 1922 and they became close friends. It is thought that Waugh first came to know and love Madresfield Court, when one of Hughs four sisters, Dorothy, invited him ...

The cancel mob can attack Larkin the man, but they should leave his poetry alone Hull City Council think the poet’s statue is of ‘concern’ because of racism in his letters. But those remarks don’t represent his work 9 March 2021 • 2:17pm Poet Philip Larkin, who died in 1985, was honoured with a statue in Hull in 2010  Credit: PA All that is surprising about the Left coming for Philip Larkin is that it took them so long. His statue in Hull, at whose university Larkin was librarian for...