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"Critical Times is a dramatic and entertaining history of one of the great literary journals of the world, the Times Literary Supplement. Derwent May unfolds a hundred years of controversy and wit, from the paper's first appearance in the great epoch of Edwardian journalism in 1902, to its role as the voice of contemporary thought." "Revealed here are the identities of the hundreds of anonymous figures who reviewed for the paper, from T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley to George Orwell and Anthony Powell. We see the tentative first writings of Miss V. A. Stephen evolve into the magisterial essays…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2001HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 606 pages · 9780007114498
- Hardcover · EnglishHarperCollins · 584 pages · 9780007114825
Times literary supplementHistoryTimes (london, england)Books, reviewsEnglish newspapersCriticismPeriodicalsEnglish periodicals