'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops Print: Book
Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to James], I don't know [...] But I've read a charming little Greek history-book from his hand'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of them -- a sensitive and intelligent fellow -- I have become real friends [...] He is, incongruously enough, a Ship's Steward [...] He is absolutely independent, but not with the theoretical independence of the Socialist. He devours masses of Dickinson [...] and Shaw.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary Print: Unknown
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary Print: Book
E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing missing soldiers] and do the motherly to Tommies as you say, and I hope in one case the brotherly [...] I lent him books by you, and though he stuck in The Meaning of Good as "unlikely to help", John Chinaman he liked so much as to read part of it aloud to the rest of the ward. "They said What do you want to read that for? I said it's very interesting about the opium as showing what Europe's like. They said But what does it matter? Who cares?" [...] he grew up in respectable circles in the west of England'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Vicary Print: Book