Record Number: 8876
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially "Death of a Hero") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide "to swim against the current".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1929 and 31 Dec 1934
Country:England
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solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Unknown
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:27 Feb 1912
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:later writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:Britain / India (Parents English and Irish but Indian born)
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
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Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:8876
Source:Gordon Bowker
Editor:n/a
Title:Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1996
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Page:35
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Citation:
Gordon Bowker, Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell, (London, 1996), p. 35, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8876, accessed: 06 October 2024
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