1st Edition

The Life of John Middleton Murry

By F.A. Lea Copyright 1959
410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1959, The Life of John Middleton Murry is the first biography of one of the most controversial figures in English letters. Many people know Middleton Murry in one or other of his capacities: as editor (of the avant-grade magazine Rhythm , while he was still an undergraduate, of The Athenaeum in its last, most brilliant phase, The Adelphi in the 1920s, Peace News in... Read more

Preface Part I: 1889-1923 1. First years 2. Ascending Curves 3. Taking Off 4. Climax 5. Strange Seas of Thought 6. ‘The Athenaeum’ 7. Death in Life Part II: 1923-1931 8. Rebirth 9. Journalist at Sea 10. Abbotsbury Harvest 11. Inhuman? 12. Resurrection 13. Son of Woman 14. Break-up Part III: 1931-1939 15. Revival 16. Socialist at Sea 17. Larling Harvest 18. All- Too- Human 19. Renovation 20. Son of Man 21. Break-Down Part IV: 1939-1957 22. Life in Death 23. ‘Peace News’ 24. Home is the Sailor 25. Anticlimax 26. Rounding off 27. Declining Curve 28. Last Years The Works of John Middleton Murry References Index

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