Gifford, James. “Critical Materials on Lawrence Durrell: A Bibliographic Checklist” Online. 23 Jan 2007.
International Lawrence Durrell Society & The Durrell School of Corfu
Critical Materials on Lawrence Durrell: A Bibliographic Checklist
(chronological)
Durrell, Lawrence. Frying the Flag. Oxfordshire, England: Alembic Press, n.date.
Hanshell, H. D. “Two Pagans: Three Christians.” The Month (n.date): 127-30. Abstract: Reviews Durrell’s On Seeming to Presume (and other poets), comparing him to Vernon Watkins and Auden.
Vitner, Ion. “L. Durrell Si Romanul Polidric (L. Durrell and the Polyhedric Novel).” Bucharest: Cartea Romaneasca (n.date): 114-23.
Durrell, Lawrence. Quaint Fragment: Poems Written Between the Ages of Sixteen and Nineteen. London: The Cecil Press, 1931.
______. Ten Poems. London: The Caduceus Press, 1932.
______. Bromo Bombastes: A Fragment From a Laconic Drama by Gaffer Peeslake, Which Same Being a Brief Extract From His Compendium of Lisson Devices. London: The Caduceus Press, 1933. Notes: Pseudonymously published under ‘Gaffer Peeslake.’
“Poetry: Ten Poems.” Times Literary Supplement (February 1933): 95. Notes: Review of Durrell’s Ten Poems.
“Poetry: Transition: Poems.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 6 December (1934): 878-79. Notes: A review of Durrell’s Transition: Poems.
Durrell, Lawrence. Transition: Poems. London: The Caduceus Press, 1934.
“Fiction: Pied Piper of Lovers.” Times Literary Supplement (1935): 725. Notes: A review of Pied Piper of Lovers.
Durrell, Lawrence. Pied Piper of Lovers. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1935. Notes: Selected portions are reprinted in Durrell’s Spirit of Place. Ed. Alan G. Thomas. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.
______. “The Cherries.” Masterpiece of Thrills, 239-43. London: Daily Express, 1936. Notes: “The Cherries” is republished in Haining, Peter, Ed. The Lucifer Society. New York: W.H. Allen; 1972; pp. 51-54.
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Mair, John. “Review: Pied Piper of Lovers.” Janus 1, no. 1 (1936): 29.
“Grecian Isle.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 24 April (1937): 307. Notes: A review of Panic Spring.
Durrell, Gerald. “Death.” The Booster 3, no. 9 (1937): 11. Notes: reprinted in 1968
Durrell, Lawrence. “The Black Book (Coda to Nancy).” The Booster 2, no. 8 (1937): 19-23. Notes: The dedication of this extract to Nancy may illuminate the “you” addressed throughout The Black Book, although the “Ego” and “Ego & Id” subtitles in the original make a clear figure for the pronoun difficult. The excerpt is from the closing pages of the novel.
______. “A Lyric For Nikh.” The Booster 2, no. 7 (1937): 37. Notes: reprinted in 1968
______. Panic Spring. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. Notes: Published pseudonymously as “Charles Norden.” Selected portions are reprinted in Durrell’s Spirit of Place. Ed. Alan G. Thomas. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.
______. Panic Spring: A Romance. London: Faber & Faber, 1937. Notes: Published pseudonymously as “Charles Norden.” Selected portions are reprinted in Durrell’s Spirit of Place. Ed. Alan G. Thomas. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.
Durrell, Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Anais Nin. “Editorial.” The Booster 2, no. 7 (1937): 5. Notes: reprinted in 1968
Miller, Henry. “Benno, The Wild Man From Borneo.” The Booster 2, no. 7 (1937): 26-29. Notes: reprinted in 1968
______. “A Boost For Hans Reichel.” The Booster 2, no. 7 (1937): 12-13. Notes: reprinted in 1968
______. “A Boost for The Black Book.” The Booster 2, no. 8 (1937): 18.
______. “Epilogue to Black Spring.” The Booster 3, no. 9 (1937): 28-31. Notes: reprinted in 1968
______. “Fall & Winter Fashions.” The Booster 2, no. 8 (1937): 43-46. Notes: reprinted in 1968
______. “I Am a Wild Park.” The Booster 2, no. 8 (1937): 38-41. Notes: reprinted in 1968
Norden, Charles. “Obituary Notice.” Night and Day 1, no. 11 (1937): 8-12. Notes: Pseudonymously written by Durrell under Charles Norden. Nancy ‘Norden’ is listed as the illustrator as well. 9 September.
______. “Sportlight.” The Booster 2, no. 7 (1937): 6-11. Notes: Pseudonymously listed under Norden, by Durrell.
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Durrell, Lawrence. “Down the Styx in an Air-Conditioned Canoe.” The Booster 4, no. 10-11 (1937): 14-17. Notes: reprinted in 1968; early version of “Down the Styx.”
Miller, Henry. “The Enormous Womb.” The Booster 4, no. 10-11 (1937): 20-24. Notes: reprinted in 1968
Durrell, Lawrence. “The Prince and Hamlet: A Diagnosis.” The New English Weekly 10, no. 14 (January 1937): 271-73. Notes: While related, this is not the same as Durrell’s Hamlet letter to Miller.
Pritchett, V. S. “New Novels.” New Statesman and Nation 13 (May 1937): 741. Notes: Review of Panic Spring.
Norden, Charles. “Ionian Profile.” Time and Tide (September 1937): 1169-70. Notes: Written by Durrell and dedicated to Theodore Stephanides. Discusses Father Nicholas of Prospero’s Cell.
Orwell, George. “Back to the Twenties.” The New English Weekly 12, no. 2 (October 1937): 30-31. Notes: A review of The Booster.
Durrell, Lawrence. “The Booster.” The New English Weekly 12, no. 4 (November 1937): 78-79. Notes: A response to George Orwell’s review of The Booster. The response is unattributed, but is by Durrell.
Orwell, George. “The Booster.” The New English Weekly 12, no. 5 (November 1937): 100. Notes: A response to Durrell rebutal of Orwell’s review of The Booster.
Durrell, Lawrence. “Asylum in the Snow.” Seven 3 (1938): 43-54.
______. The Black Book: An Agon. Villa Seurat Series, 1. Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938. Notes: This edition varies slightly from later reprints. Most significant are the subtitle and the titles to the three sections of the book (all omitted in later editions). The three sections are titled “ego & id,” “ego,” and “ego & id” respectively.
______. “Carol in Corfu.” Seven 3 (1938): 2. Notes: A variant of “Carol on Corfu.”
______. “Ego.” Seven 1 (1938): 22-25. Notes: Extract from The Black Book
______. “Hamlet, Prince of China.” Delta 2, no. 3 (1938): 38-45. Notes: Text of Durrell’s ‘Hamlet letter’ to Miller from January 1937.
______. “Lawrence Durrell.” Proems, 23-43. London: The Fortune Press, 1938. Notes: Contains “Unckebunck: A Biography in Little” with extensive prose, “Five Soliloquies Upon the Tomb” and “Themes Heraldic (Selections From).”
______. “Letter.” The Phoenix 1, no. 3 (1938): 157-58. Notes: Durrell writes in support of The Phoenix and its aims, which derive from the works of D.H.
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Lawrence.
______. “Poem to Gerald.” Delta 2, no. 2 (1938): 9. Notes: Variant of poem IX in “Themes Heraldic.”
Evans, Patrick. “An Anonymous Person.” Proems, 19. London: The Fortune Press, 1938. Notes: This poem is dedicated to Durrell.
Fraser, G. S. “An Incident of the Campaign.” Seven 1 (1938): 11-18.
Miller, Henry. “The Brooklyn Bridge.” Seven 1 (1938): 4-10.
O’Connor, Philip. “Review - “The Black Book,” Lawrence Durrell.” Seven 3 (1938): 55-56.
Smith, Janet Adam. “Books of the Quartet.” The Criterion 18, no. 70 (1938): 113-18. Notes: Reviews Proems and comments on Durrell’s contribution.
Thomas, Dylan. “Prologue to an Adventure.” Delta: A French and English Review 2, no. 3 (1938): 7-12. Notes: reprinted in 1968
“Shorter Notices.” Nation 146 (January 1938): 753. Notes: Review of Panic Spring.
Hawkins, Desmond. “Views and Reviews: The Amateur Publisher.” The New English Weekly (June 1938): 225-26. Notes: Reviews a number of little magazines, noting Durrell’s works in three: Seven, Proems, and Transition.
Porteus, Hugh Gordon. “Views and Reviews: DE ARTE MORIENDE.” The New English Weekly 13, no. 23 (September 1938): 341-42. Notes: Review of The Black Book.
Durrell, Lawrence. “14 Poems.” The Booster 3, no. 1 (1939): 28-35. Notes: reprinted as one volume in 1968
______. “Corfu: Isle of Legend.” The Geographical Magazine 8, no. 5 (1939): 325-34. Notes: Includes a number of excellent black and white photos by Nancy Durrell.
______. “Correspondence.” Poetry London 1, no. 2 (1939): n.pag. Notes: A letter on Poetry London for its opening issue.
______. “Epitaph.” Poetry London 1, no. 1 (1939): n.pag. Notes: Poem is not included in Durrell’s Collected Poems, 1968. No relationship to Durrell’s later poem of the same title.
______. “Gracie From The Black Book.” New Directions in Prose and Poetry 4 (1939): 292-331. Notes: This extract from The Black Book includes a lengthy introduction by James Laughlin (pp. 292-294) and marks the first appearance in the United States of a portion of the novel. Of the four portions of the novel published in periodicals, this is by far the most extensive.
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______. “Island Fugue (to My Wife).” Poetry London 1, no. 1 (1939): n.pag. Notes: Poem is not included in Durrell’s Collected Poems 1968.
______. “Lawrence Durrell.” Delta 3, no. 1 (1939): 28-35. Notes: Contains a slightly variant version of the 14 sections of Durrell’s “A Soliloquy of Hamlet”
______. “The Simple Art of Truth: A First Study in Doctor Graham Howe.” Purpose 5, no. 11 (1939): 85- 90.
______. “Six Poems.” Seven 4 (1939): 4-9. Notes: Variant versions of “The Ego’s Own Egg,” “The Hanged Man,” “Father Nicholas His Death,” “The Poet, I.” “A Small Scripture To Nancy,” & “Adam”
______. “The Tao and Its Glozes.” The Aryan Path (India) 10, no. 12 (1939): 585-87. Notes: Reprinted in Durrell’s A Smile in the Mind’s Eye. London: Wildwood House, 1980.
______. “Theatre.” Poetry London 1, no. 2 (1939): n.pag. Notes: Review of T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion by L.G.D.
______. “Theatre: Sense and Sensibility.” International Post 1, no. 1 (1939): 17-19.
______. “Zero.” Seven 6 (1939): 8-18. Notes: Early version, without dedication to Miller/Nin or the ‘letters from Nietzsche.’
Hawkins, Desmond. “The Black Book.” Criterion 18, no. 71 (1939): 316-18.
Kahane, Jack. Memoirs of a Bootlegger. London : Michael Joseph Ltd., 1939. Notes: Durrell, along with Miller, is mentioned on three occasions (available via an index). Primarily, Durrell is mentioned with regard to The Black Book and the Villa Seurat Series.
Mayoux, J. J. “Lawrence Durrell: The Black Book.” Etudes Anglaises 3 (1939): 310-311. Notes: Review of Durrell’s The Black Book.
Durrell, Lawrence. “A Letter From the Land of the Gods.” Right Review 8 (January 1939).
______. “Logos.” The New English Weekly 14, no. 21 (March 1939): 316.
______. “The Open Way.” The New English Weekly 15, no. 14 (July 1939): 220. Notes: Review of E. Graham Howe’s The Open Way.
______. “Prospero’s Isle (“to Caliban”).” T’Ien Hsia Monthly 9, no. 2 (September 1939): 129-39. Notes: Focusing on Shakespeare and Corfu, this article is a forerunner to Prospero’s Cell.
______. “At Nemea.” Seven 8 (1940): 2. Notes: A variant version of “Nemea” with several significant changes.
______. “The Green Man.” Poetry London 1, no. 3 (1940): 82-83. Notes: A variant of “Green Man.”
______. “A Noctuary.” Poetry London 1, no. 3 (1940): 82-83.
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Notes: A greatly varied version of “A Noctuary in Athens.”
______. “Poem in Space and Time.” New Directions in Prose and Poetry 5 (1940): 342-47. Notes: A variant version of Durrell’s “The Prayer-Wheel.”
______. “Rilke.” Poetry London 1, no. 3 (1940): 84-85. Notes: A review of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies.
______. “The Sermon: From a Verse Play.” Experimental Review 2 (1940): 56-57.
______. “Mysticism: The Yellow Peril.” The New English Weekly 41, no. 14 (January 1940): 208-9. Notes: A polemical review of Cranmer Byng and Alan Watts’ The Persian Mystics and Arthur Waley’s Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China.
“Review: New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1939.” The New English Weekly 41, no. 23 (March 1940): 342. Notes: Refers to Durrell as a familiar author to The New English Weekly and gives strong praise for the excerpt from Durrell’s Black Book, which the author notes is otherwise unavailable in English due to Customs restrictions.
Durrell, Lawrence. “The Underworld.” The New English Weekly 41, no. 24 (April 1940): 356-57. Notes: Durrell’s review of A.J.J. Ratcliff’s The Nature of Dreams and R.L. Megroz’s The Dream World.
______. “In Arcadia.” Kingdom Come: The Magazine of War-Time Oxford 1, no. 4 (Summer 1940): 110. Notes: Greatly varied version of “In Arcadia.”
______. “Daphnis and Chloë.” Poetry London 1, no. 5 (1941): 141. Notes: A variant version of “Daphnis and Chloe.”
______. “Hero.” Poetry London 1, no. 6 (1941): 173. Notes: This poem is not included in Durrell’s Collected Poetry 1968. Durrell’s name is mis-spelled as “Laurence.”
______. “In a Time of Crisis.” The Little Book of Modern Verse, Ed. Anne Ridler, 133-34. London: Faber & Faber, 1941. Notes: Variant with an added stanza and minor changes.
______. “In A Time Of Crisis (For Nancy).” Poetry London 1, no. 4 (1941): 98-99. Notes: A slightly variant version of “In Crisis.”
______. “Letter to Seferis the Greek.” Diogenes 1, no. 3 (1941): 96-100. Notes: A slightly variant version.
______. “Ten Poems.” Experimental Review 3 (1941): n.pag. Notes: Contains Durrell’s “The Hanged Man,” “Three Carols and A Soliloquy from Uncebuncke,” “In Crisis,” “Father Nicolas His Death,” “Sermon of One,” “The Three Sons to Leslie Gerald, my brothers,” and “Fangbrand (A biography).” Some are slight variants. The introduction lists the poems as deriving from the unpublished manuscript of A Private Country.
Miller, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. Norfolk: New Directions, 1941.
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Notes: A letter by Durrell concludes the book, and Durrell is mentioned throughout.
Durrell, Lawrence. “Carol in Corfu.” Furioso 1, no. 4 (Summer 1941): 45-46.
______. “In Arcadia.” Furioso 1, no. 4 (Summer 1941): 46.
______. “At Epidaurus.” The Fortune Anthology: Stories, Criticism, and Poems, Eds. John Bayliss, Nicholas Moore, and Douglas Newton, 51-52. London: The Fortune Press, 1942.
______. “Daphnis and Chloe (for V.).” View 1, no. 12-12 (1942): 6. Notes: Variant version of “Daphnis and Chloe” (later than the 1937 version in the Collected Poems). View is an arts magazine edited by Charles Henri Ford.
______. “Epidaurus.” Poetry London 2, no. 7 (1942): 20-21. Notes: A variant version of “At Epidaurus.”
______. “Lawrence Durrell.” Poetry in War-Time, Ed. M. J. Tambimuttu, 41-50. London: Faber & Faber, 1942. Notes: Contains variant versions of “Epitaph,” “Island Fugue,” “The Green Man, “In a Time of Crisis” (“In Crisis”) and “Letter to Seferis the Greek.”
______. “Mythology: I.” View 3, no. 3 (1943): 83. Notes: Variant version of “Coptic Poem.” View is an arts magazine edited by Charles Henri Ford.
______. “Mythology: II.” View 3, no. 3 (1943): 83. Notes: Slightly variant version of “Mythology.” View is an arts magazine edited by Charles Henri Ford.
______. A Private Country. London: Faber & Faber, 1943.
Fausset, Hugh l’Anson. “Dark Crystals.” Times Literary Supplement 2169 (1943): 417.
Durrell, Lawrence. “Alexandria.” Citadel (April 1943). Notes: A long poem printed in the monthly literary magazine ‘Citadel’ published by the British Institute, 3, Sikket el Maghraby, Cairo, and printed by the Societe Orientale de Publicite. Edited by David Hicks.
______. “Airgraph on Refugee Poets in Africa.” Poetry London 2, no. 10 (1944): 212-15. Notes: Represented varyingly as volume 2 and volume 3. Enumeration is cumulative, so it may be identified as no. 10 in either case.
______. “On First Looking Into The Loeb Horace.” Selected Writing, Ed. Reginald Moore, 101-2. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1944. Notes: A slightly variant version of the poem.
Fraser, G. S. “Recent Verse: London and Cairo.” Poetry London 2, no. 10 (1944): 215-19. Notes: Represented varyingly as volume 2 and volume 3. Enumeration is cumulative, so it may be identified as no. 10 in either case.
Ingalls, Jeremy. “The Classics and New Poetry.” The Classical Journal 40, no. 2 (1944): 77-91.
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Manning, Olivia. “Poets in Exile.” Horizon 10, no. 58 (1944): 270-279.
Ross, Alan. “The Poetry of Mnemotechny.” Poetry London 10 (1944): 236-38.
Tambimuttu. “Letter.” Poetry London 2, no. 10 (1944): 219. Notes: This letter responds to G.S. Fraser’s of the same issue. The issue is represented varyingly as volume 2 and volume 3. Enumeration is cumulative, so it may be identified as no. 10 in either case.
Durrell, Lawrence. “Conon in Alexandria.” Gangrel (1945): 27-29. Notes: A slight variant of “Conon in Alexandria.”
______. “The Happy Rock.” The Happy Rock: A Book About Henry Miller, 1-6. Berkeley: Bern Porter, 1945. Notes: The editor/compiler of the monograph is not listed.
______. “Introduction.” Three Caravan Cities: Petra, Jerash, Baalbek, and St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai Paul Gotch, v. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Egypt, 1945.
______. Prospero’s Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra. London: Faber & Faber, 1945.
______. “Seven Poems.” Atlantic Anthology, Eds Jankel White Antonia MacLaren-Ross J. Adler, 86-90. London: The Fortune Press, 1945. Notes: Contains variant versions of Durrell’s poems “Sea Music” (later “Water Music”), “Tribes,” “Pearls,” “Air to Seria,” “Heloise and Abelard,” “The Pilot” and “La Rouchefoucauld.”
Fedden, Robin. Personal Landscape: An Anthology of Exile. London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. Notes: Durrell is listed as the editor of this volume in a number of issues of Poetry London published by Editions Poetry London. Contains Durrell’s “Delos” (17-18), “For a Nursery Mirror” (18-19), “La Rouchefoucauld” (41-42), “On First Looking in Loeb’s Horace” (49-51), “Mythology” (51), “Coptic Poem” (82-83), “Byron” (95-99), “Mariotis” (99), “Conon the Critic” (115-116), and “This Unimportant Morning” (118). The Seferis translations also appear to be Durrell’s: “The King of Asine” (19-21) and “Old Man on the River Bank” (111), as well as Elie Papadimitriou’s “Three Recitatives from ‘Anatolia’” (85-94).
Stonier, G. W. “The Enchanted Island.” New Statesman, no. 24 November (1945): 357-58. Notes: Review of Durrell’s Prospero’s Cell.
Durrell, Lawrence. “In Europe.” The Partisan Review 12, no. 3 (Summer 1945): 346-50. Notes: Dedicated “(To Elie).”
Blunden, Edmund Charles. “A Cairo Anthology.” Times Literary Supplement 2266 (July 1945): 320. Notes: A review of Personal Landscape.
______. “Horace Lends His Shield.” Times Literary Supplement 2266 (July 1945): 319. Notes: A review of Personal Landscape.
Tomlinson, H. M. “Where Prosperos Held His Court.” Times Literary Supplement 2282 (October 1945): 512. Notes: Review of Prospero’s Cell
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Durrell, Lawrence. “Alexandria.” Middle East Anthology, Eds. John Waller and Erik de Mauny, 125-26. London: Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1946. Notes: A slightly variant version of the poem, mainly altered in occasional punctuation and capitalization.
______. Cities, Plains and People. London: Faber & Faber, 1946.
______. “Conon in Alexandria.” Middle East Anthology, Eds. John Waller and Erik de Mauny, 127-28. London: Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1946. Notes: An early, variant version of the poem.
______. “Eight Aspects of Melissa.” Circle, no. 9 (1946): 1-8.
______. “Eternal Contemporaries.” Penguin New Writing 29 (1946). Notes: Variant with only 4 of the later 6.
______. “Foreword.” Climax in Crete Theodore Stephanides, 5-6. London: Faber & Faber, 1946.
______. “A Landmark Gone.” Middle East Anthology, Eds. John Waller and Erik de Mauny, 19-21. London: Lindsay Drummond, Ltd., 1946.
______. The Parthenon. Rhodes: Privately Printed, 1946.
______. Six Poems From the Greek of Sekilianos and Seferis. Rhodes: Privately Printed, 1946. Notes: Durrell’s own free translation of 6 poems each by Sekilianos and Seferis, as well as a brief introduction.
______. “The Telephone.” Greek Horizons: A Quarterly Review (Athens) 1, no. Summer (1946): 45-56. Notes: Later apperas in a modified form as a chapter from Reflections on a Marine Venus, “The Little Summer of Saint Demetrius.”
______. “Two Poems.” New Writing and Daylight 7 (1946): 151-52. Notes: Contains “Blind Homer” and “Rodini.”
______. Zero and Asylum in the Snow. Rhodes: Privately Printed, 1946.
Hardie, A. M. “An Elizabethan Note.” Times Literary Supplement 2306 (April 1946): 176. Notes: Review of Cities, Plains and People.
Durrell, Lawrence. “Can Dreams Live On When Dreamers Die?” The Listener, no. 25 September (1947): 52.
______. Cefalu: A Novel. London: Editions Poetry London, 1947. Notes: Republished as The Dark Labyrinth. London: Faber & Faber, 1961.
______. “Elegy on the Closing of the French Brothels.” Now 8 (1947): 30-32. Notes: Variant of “Elegy on the Closing of the French Brothels.”
______. “From a Winter Journal.” Penguin New Writing 32 (1947). Notes: Later republished in Pleasures of New Writing in 1952.
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______. “From a Writer’s Journal.” The Windmill (London) 2, no. 6 (1947): 50-58.
______. “In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus.” Poetry London 3, no. 11 (1947): 17-18. Notes: A greatly altered version of “In the Garden: Villa Cleobolus.”
______. “The Island of the Rose.” The Geographical Magazine 20, no. 6 (1947): 230-239. Notes: Durrell’s name is mis-spelled “Laurence” in both the table of contents and on the article. Contains a number of photographs.
______. Zero and Asylum in the Snow: Two Excursions Into Reality. Berkeley, CA: Circle Editions, 1947. Notes: Reprint of “Zero” and “Asylum in the Snow.” Dustjacket advertises Circle as having already printed Durrell’s The Black Book. This edition has not been found, but all other listed books are extant.
Gomme, A. W. “Review: Climax in Crete.” International Affairs 23, no. 3 (1947): 423. Notes: Notes Durrell’s Foreword to Stephanides’ book.
Porteus, Hugh Gordon. “Points of View: Three Exiles.” Poetry London 3, no. 12 (1947): 28-31. Notes: A review of Keith Douglas’ Alamein to Zem-Zem; Durrell’s Cities, Plains and People and Prospero’s Cell; and Bernard Spencer’s Aegean Islands. Durrell is described as “one of the most brilliant prose writers since Joyce” (28).
Stanford, Derek. “Lawrence Durrell.” The Freedom of Poetry: Studies in Contemporary Verse Derek Stanford, 123-35. London: The Falcon Press, 1947. Notes: Also printed in under the same title, The Hague, Holland: Mouton & Company, 1947. Very good photograph of Durrell on p. 125.
Tindal, William York. Forces in Modern British Literature: 1885-1946. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Notes: Durrell is discussed at three points, all with regard to his poetry.
Waller, John. “Lawrence Durrell: A Clever Magician.” Poetry Review 38, no. 3 (1947): 177-82.
Durrell, Lawrence. “Funchal.” Poetry London 4, no. 13 (1948): 13-14. Notes: A much-altered version of “Funchal.”
______. “Giordano Bruno.” Times Literary Supplement 1 May (1948): 247. Notes: Durrell asks for information on Giordano Bruno’s influence on Elizabethan writers.
______. On Seeming to Presume. London: Faber & Faber, 1948.
______. On Seeming to Presume. Birmingham: Delos Press.
______. “Self to Not-Self.” Poetry London 4, no. 14 (1948): 14. Notes: A greatly altered version of “Self to Not-Self,” containing a third middle stanza.
______. “Studies in Genius VI: Groddeck.” Horizon 17, no. June (1948): 384-403.
Seferis, George. The King of Asine and Other Poems. Trans. Lawrence Spencer Bernard Valaoritis Nanos Durrell. London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1948.
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