Notes

Cllapter 1 The Entertainer in Old Age Bryan Appleyard 1. James Gindin, '', in Contemporary Nwelists, ed. James Vinson (New York: StMartin's Press, 1972) pp. 44-8.

Cllapter 2 Amis Country Anthony Powell 1. Anthony Powell, 'Booking Office', Punch, 3 February 1954, p. 188.

Cllapter 3 Profile Robert Conquest 1. Peter Firchow (ed.), 'Kingsley Amis', The Writer's Plllce (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974) p. 29.

Cllapter 4 Kingsley, Aa I Know Him Paul Fussell 1. Kingsley Amis, 'Unreal Policemen', in What Became offane Austen? And Other Questions, p. 123. 2. Kingsley Amis, 'An Evening with Dylan Thomas', ibid., p. 62. 3. Kingsley Amis, 'In Slightly Different Form', ibid., p. 102.

Cllapter 8 Kingsley in Nashville Ricll'ard Porter

1. See Elizabeth Jane Howard, 'American South', Sundlly Telegraph (London), 7 April1968, p. 19.

Cllapter 9 'im Brian Aldiss

1. A reference to Pohl and Kornbluth's The Spttee Merclumts, which he had just discussed. 2. Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction, p. 133.

Cllapter 12 The 'Awfulness' of Kingsley Amis Gilbert Phelps

1. Kingsley Amis, 'Introduction', in Poets of the 1950s ed. D. J. Enright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955) p. v. 2. Philip Larkin, 'Annus Mirabilis', High Windows (London: Faber &: Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus&: Giroux, 1974). 3. Melvyn Bragg, 'Kingsley Amis Looks Back', Listener, 20 February 1975, pp. 240--1. 4. Robert Kiely, 'The Green Man', The New York Times Book Review, 23 August 1970, p. 5. 5. Bernard Bergonzi, 'Kingsley Amis', in his The Situation of the Nwel (London: Maanillan, 1970) pp. 161-74.

188 Notes 189

Otapter 13 Jim, Jake and the Years Between Keith Wilson

1. The extent of the cult can easily be forgotten. was first published in January 1954. By February 1956 it was into its sixteenth impression. [Editor's note: In his Modem First Editions: Their Value to Collectors (London: Orbis, 1984) p. 29, Joseph Connolly writes: 'although it is true that the book was successful from the first, during the successive printing, Gollancz would periodically [about every thousand copies or so] halt the presses, and insert news of a further impression upon the verso of the title page.] 2. The appeal of Lucky Jim to North American undergraduates has frequently provoked comment, for example in Bruce Stovel, 'Tradi• tional Comedy and the Comic Mask in Kingsley Amis' s Lucky Jim', English Studies in Canada, 4 (1978) pp. 69--80. 3. 'Pendennis', 'A Difficult Old Sod', Observer (London), 3 February 1980, p. 44. 4. Lucky Jim was the first significant postwar 'campus' novel in Britain, and the founder of a substantial line of which the most successful have included Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People is Wrong (1959) and David Lodge's Chllnging Pllu:es (1975). 5. The appeal to unaffected good sense and intellectual honesty is a crucial part of Jim Dixon's popularity and Amis' s own assumed popularist mask. In a 1973 interview, Amis defended this stance: 'Jim and I have taken a lot of stick and badmouthing for being Philistine, aggressively Philistine, and saying, ''Well, as long as I've got me blonde and me pint of beer and me packet of fags and me seat in the cinema, I'm all right." I don't think either of us would say that. It's nice to have a pretty girl with large breasts rather than some fearful woman who's going to talk to you about Ezra Pound and hasn't got large breasts and probably doesn't wash much. And better to have a pint of beer than to have to talk to your host about the burgundy you're drinking. And better to go to the pictures than go to ·see nonsensical art exhibitions that nobody's really going to enjoy. So it's appealing to common sense if you like, and it's a way of trying to denounce affectation.' Dale Salwak, 'An Interview with Kingsley Amis', Contemporary Literature, 16 (1975) p. 8. The extent to which for Amis this is a mask is made apparent when one considers that the year before he gave this interview, he published On Drink, which spends some considerable time discussing wine, including burgundy. 6. Philip Larkin, 'Toads', The Less Deceived (London: Marvell Press, 1955). 7. Jim's article ('The Economic Influence of the Developments in Ship• building Techniques, 1450 to 1485') has a disconcerting air of authen• ticity about it. In his Anatomy of Britain Today 2nd edn (New York: Harper Colophon, 1966) p. 288, Anthony Sampson lists 'the first four entries ... for the degree of Bachelor of Letters in Modem History at Oxford in 1961'; they read; A study of the 'Narratio de Fundatione' of Fountains Abbey. The rise and influence of the House of Luxemburg-Ligny from 1371-1475. 190 Notes

A bibliography of Henry StJohn, Viscount Bolinbroke. The Archiepiscopate of William de Corbeill123-36. 8. 'Books? Don't make him laugh: apart from the juvenile one about the sods in Asia Minor there had been three others, all solidly "re· searched", all well received in the places that received them, all quite likely to be on the shelves of the sort of library coneemed, all combined still bringing in enough cash to keep him in bus fares. Three or, in the eye of charity, four books were probably enough to justify Dr Jaques ("Jake") Richardson's life. They were bloody well going to have to.' 9. Margaret Drabble, The Ice Age (London: Weidenfeld &t Nicolson, 1977). 10. John Fowles, Daniel MJlrtin (Toronto: Collins, 1977). 11. William Golding, Darkness Visible (London: Faber &t Faber, 1979). 12. John Milton, Paradise Lost I, ll. 61-9. 13. Anthony Burgess, 1985 (London: Hutchinson, 1978).

Chapter 14 Kingsley Amia: Devils and Others Barbara Everett

1. What follows is an edited version of the first half of an essay on the friendship of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, and particularly on the literary principles shared by both.

Chapter 15 The Language of Kingsley Amis Nomutn Macleod

1. Alan Watkins, 'Kingsley Amis', in his Brief Lives (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982) p. 1. 2. William H. Pritchard, 'Entertaining Amis', Essays in Criticism, xxx (1980) p. 67. 3. Joseph Connolly, Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors (London: Orbis, 1987) p. 23. 4. I have in mind here Amis' s commitment to the view that authors should write in order to win willing readers, and that pleasure and diversion are what most readers may be looking for. This belief has been expressed by Amis, with different kinds of emphasis, throughout his career- for instance, in the preface to his study of Ian Fleming's Bond books. Among other reasons for undertaking such a study, Amis explains: 'I felt, too . . . that the works of Mr Fleming deserved a thorough look because of the scale on which they are read. In paperback form, nine of them have now passed the million mark. I was also impressed by the motive for which every one of these readers reads them: pleasure' [Kingsley Amis, The ]ames Bond Dossier (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965) p. 9]. 5. Barbara Everett, 'Philistines', London Review of Books, 2 April 1987, p. 5. 6. Ibid. 7. V. S. Pritchett, 'First Stop Reading', New Statesman and Nation, 3 October 1953, p. 379. Notes 191

8. Anthony Powell, 'Short Notices', Punch, 3 February 1954, p. 188. 9. Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling, vol. IV: The Strangers All Are Gone (London: Heinemann, 1982) p. 159. 10. The construction of is discussed in my article, 'A Trip to Greeneland: The Plagiarizing Narrator of Kingsley Amis' s I Like It Here', Studies in the Nuvel, 17 (1985) pp. 203-17. 11. Raymond Tallis, In Defonce of Retllism (London: Edward Arnold, 1988) p. 138. Tallis also mentions, clearly as a negative point, what he calls Amis's 'myopic lounge-bar conservatism', but this is a factor that can be discounted as an artistic issue on various grounds: for one thing, the other side always gets some kind of a say in Amis' s fiction, so much so that, if ever politics or issues that people want to regard politically come in, what one would expect to be the more favoured side seems to undergo a kind of deconstruction and to come off worse, or at least certainly not any better; furthermore, as distinctive a feature as any other of Amis's 'comic vision' is the capacity of that selfsame 'comic vision' to extend to seeing - and treating - its own most heartfelt views and prejudices in a sharply ironic way; again, as Amis has consistently pointed out whenever his novels have been taken as embodying firm political or social issues (typically, in recent years, on the recurrent charge of misogyny), it is 'not so' that 'a generalisation emerging from a book- "Women aren't all they're cracked up to be"• is the author's last word on the subject, his considered unchangeable attitude in his life'. And to make just one more point, again drawing on Amis's own words, criticism that judges fiction in terms of the author's life and opinions seems to be unaware of 'what fiction is, and its real complete difference from fact'. Both quotations from Kingsley Amis come from an interview with Michael Billington on 'Kaleidoscope' on BBC Radio 4: see 'Writing and Warning - an Interview with Kingsley Amis', Listener, 15 February 1979, pp. 262--3. 12. Lodge first developed this view in his article 'The Modern, the Contemporary, and The Importance of Being Amis', reprinted in his Language of Fiction (London: Routledge and I

21. John Vaizey, 'Compliments of the Season', Listener, 30 May 1974, p. 703. 22. Anthony Burgess, 'Bunn in the Oven', Observer (London), 25 Sep• tember 1988, p. 43. 23. 'Atticus', 'As Keen as Mustard', Sunday Times (London), 7 November 1982, p. 35. 24. Anthony Burgess, 'Woman Trouble', Observer (London), 20 May 1984, p. 22. 25. Burgess, 'Bunn in the Oven', p. 43. 26. Wallace Robson, 'Kingsley Amis as a Critic', Spectator, 28 November 1970, p. 690. Robson has also praised Amis as 'In our time ... a master of [the) art' of conveying tone to the reader: see W. W. Robson, The Definition of Literature and Other Essays (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 1982) p. 21. 27. It should be noted that contemporary forms involving reductions and elisions, carefully recorded in Jake's Thing, have been 'corrected' by an over-zealous editor in the Penguin paperback edition. So 'What did you pay for it you don't mind my asking?' is 'corrected' to'... for it if you don't mind my asking?' and so on. On some of the points exemplified, see: Norman Macleod, 'Accord• ing to Me, Sentences Like This One Are O.K.', Journal of Pragmatics, 9 (1985) pp. 331-43; and M. A. K. Halliday, 'On Being Teaching' in Studies in English Linguistics for Randolph Quirk, eds Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik (London: Longman, 1980) pp. 61-4. 28. Francis King, 'Passion Spent', Spectator, 23 September 1978, p. 81. 29. In a televised discussion between and Kingsley Amis, 'Word for Word', BBC2, 25 September 1978. 30. Alan Watkins, 'Books of the Year', Spectator, 6 December 1986, p. 32. 31. Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 3rd Ser., ed. George Plimpton, Introduced by Alfred Kazin (London: Seeker and Warburg, 1968) p. 110. 32. Malcolm Bradbury, "'No, Not Bloomsbury", the Comic Fiction of Kingsley Amis', in his No, Not Bloomsbury (London: Andre Deutsch, 1987) pp. 201-18. 33. Evelyn Waugh, The Ordelll of Gilbert Pinfold (London: Chapman and Hall, 1973) p. 127. 34. Evelyn Waugh, Helena (London: Chapman and Hall, 1950) p. 120. 35. 'Writing and Warning- An Interview with Kingsley Amis', Listener, 15 February 1979, pp. 262-3. 36. Bradbury, No, Not Bloomsbury, p. 203. 37. Kingsley Amis (ed.) 'Introduction', in The Golden Age of Science Fiction (London: Century Hutchinson, 1981) p. 11. 38. Kingsley Amis, 'Fresh Winds from the West', Spectator, 2 May 1958, p. 565. 39. 'The Two Amises', Listener, 15 August 1974, pp. 21~220. 40. Kingsley Amis, 'Thomas the Rhymer', in his What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions, p. 56. 41. See Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, Relewnce Communiclltion and Cognition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986) and H. P. Grice, 'Logic and Notes 193

Conversation', in Speech Ads (Syntax and Semllntics, vol. 3), eds Peter W. Cole and Jerry Morgan (New York and London: Academic Press, 1975) pp. 41-58. 42. Paul Grice, 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature', Radical Pragmatics, ed. Peter W. Cole (New York and London: Academic Press, 1981) p. 189. 43. Malcolm Bradbury, (ed.), 'Introduction', in The Novel Today: Contempor• ary Writers on Modern Fiction (London: Fontana Books, 1977) p. 17. 44. Ibid., p. 18. 45. 'Interview: Alastair Morgan Talks to Anthony Burgess', Literary Review, February 1983, p. 21. Here Burgess discusses the distinction between Oass 1 novelists, whose prose is serviceable, and Oass 2 novelists, in whose language 'You're meant to observe the structure, as well as the message the structure is trying to convey.' This distinction was first propounded by Anthony Burgess in his Joysprick: An Introduction to the lAnguage of James Joyce (London: Andre Deutsch, 1973). 46. I first commented on Amis as a writer of audacious narratives, and as a writer who drew on a linguistic resourcefulness rather than modernist experiment, in my entry 'Kingsley Amis', in Writers of the English lAnguage, vol. 2: Novelists and Prose Writers, ed. James Vinson (London: Macmillan, 1979) pp. 39-42. Similar claims have been splendidly argued by Neil McEwan in the chapter 'Kingsley Amis' in The Survival of the Novel: British Fiction in the lAter Twentieth Century (London: Macmillan, 1981) pp. 78-97. A similar view is also indicated in Sebastian Faulks, 'The Old Devil Takes the Booker', Independent, 23 October 1986, p. 19. Although it is a brief and occasional piece - appearing in the paper the day after Amis' s Booker Prize award - Faulks's essay makes a number of perceptive points about Amis's work.

Chapter 16 Changing Social and Moral Attitudes James Gindin

1. Amis himself has connected his depiction of God in The Anti-Dellth League with William Empson's characterisation of God as malignant in Milton's God. See Dale Salwak's interview with Amis in 'An Interview with Kingsley Amis', Contemporary Literature XVI (Spring 1975) pp. 15-16. 2. Malcolm Bradbury, '"No, Not Bloomsbury'', the Comic Fiction of Kingsley Amis', in his No, Not Bloomsbury (London: Andre Deutsch, 1987) pp. 201-18. Select Bibliography

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Bright November (London: Fortune Press, 1947). A Frtlme of Mind (Reading: School of Art, University of Reading, 1953). Kingsley Amis: No. 22. The Fantasy Poets (Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1954). A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1956; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957). The Evans Country (Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1962). Penguin Modern Poets 2, with Don Moraes and Peter Porter (Har• mondsworth: Penguin, 1962). A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967-(London: Jonathan Cape, 1967; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968). WJZSted, Kipling at Bateman's (London: Poem-of-the-Month Oub, 1973). Collected Poems 1944--1979 (London: Hutchinson, 1980; New York: Viking Press, 1981).

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Works Edited or with Contributions by Kingsley Antis

Oxford Poetry 1949, with James Michie (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949). Oscllr Wilde: Poems and Essays (London: Collins, 1956). Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology, with Robert Conquest, 5 vols (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961-5; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1962- 7). G. K. Chesterton: Selected Stories (London: Faber & Faber, 1972). Tennyson (Poet to Poet series) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973). Harold's Years: Impressions from the New Statesman and Spectator (London: Quartet, 1977). The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1978). The Faber Popular Reciter (London: Faber & Faber, 1978). The Golden Age of Science Fiction (London: Hutchinson, 1981). The Great British Songbook, with James Cochrane London: Pavilion/Michael Joseph, 1986).

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Socialism and the Intellectuals (London: Fabian Society, 1957). Lucky Jim's Politics (London: Conservative Political Centre, 1968). Black Papers on Education (Manchester: Critical Quarterly Society, 1968-75). On Drink (London: Jonathan Cape, 1972; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973). An Arts Policy? (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 1979). Everyday Drinking (London: Hutchinson, 1983). Huuls Your Glass? (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984).

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Aldiss, Brian, 53, 55; Billion Year Egyptologists, The, 3, 14, 49 Spree, 49; The Brightfount Ending Up, 18, 49, 59-60, 68, 70, Diaries, 40; Cities and Stones, 48; 73, 74,92, 104,108,144-5 The Dark Ught Years, 49 Girl, 20, 18, 104, 109-10, 112, 117, Aldiss, Margaret, 48, 53 118, 121-2, 187 Allen, Woody, 150 Green Mlln, The, 14, ~9, 59, 68, Allsop, Kenneth, The Angry Decode, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 92, 104, 66, 67, 68 112, 117, 118, 164, 165 Anlls,fUUuy,2,3,031,53 I Like It Here, 3, 21, 46-7, 69, 70, Amis, Kingsley, birth, 1; 104, 1~1, 132, 133, 134, Cambridge, 3, 18; childhood, 137-9, 140, 185, 186 1; devotion to language, 21-2, I Want It Nuw, 13, 18, 37, 110, 27,30,31-2, 100-29;drUnk, 1, 114, 187 2~1, 33-4, 42, 47-:8; food, 12, Jake's Thing, 4, 8, 65, 67, 68, 72, 20,37;education, 1,2,30,66- 73,76-88,92,104,112,113, 7; father's death, 3; fear of 114, 11~21, 122-9, 132, 134, flying, 13,28,37;nruandage,2, 141-2, 184, 187 3, 4; military service, 1-2, 13; ~acy, The,2,4, 186 modesty, 26; moralist, 13, 1~ One Fat Englishman, 70, 72, 75, 48; music, 1, 28; on death, 4- 131, 132, 134, 137, 139, 141 5, 9, 13; on politics, 15-16, 19, Lucky Jim, 2, 3, 4, 6-7, 8, 12, 14, 130; on rascism, 38-9; on 18, 20, 22, 31, 32, 37, 38, 48, science fiction, 28, ~, 51- 49,57,58-9,66,67,68, 73, 6; on writing, 1, 2, 3, 4; 74,76-88,99,100,103,105- prejudices, 28, 65-75; 6, 109, 133, 135, 143, 150, Princeton, 1~19, 25, 52; sense 173, 177, 182, 183, 185, 186, of humour, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 18, 187 20,21,22,23,27-8,31,33-4, Old Deuils, The, 4, 20, 22-3, 31, 36,37-8,46,59,73-4,104, 1~ 66, 68, 73, 89-93, 97-9, 104, 4, 183-7; social attitudes, 1~ 112, 114, 139, 146-8, 184 48; style, 1, 3, 4, 6, 12, 1~29, One Fat Englishman, 42, 70, 72, 167-72 pGSSim; Swansea, 2, 3, 75, 131, 132, 134, 137, 139, 7, 12, 18, 31; travels, 19, 14- 141 15, 24-5, ~9, 46-7, 51-2, 53- Riverside Vilkls Murder, The, 21, 5; Vanderbilt, 3fr9; work 59, 60 n92, 139, 177 habits, 33-5, 39 Russian Hide-tmd-Seek, 44-6, 59, 87-8, 115, 184 Novels Stanley and the Women, 4, 20, 21, Alteration, The, 43-4, 55, 59, 92-7 23, 70-1, 72, 73, 92, 104, 109, Anti-Dellth I.mgue, The, 13, 59, 73, 112, 113, 114, 141, 142-3, 183, 74-5, 13fr7, 138 184-5, 187 Colonel Sun: A James Bond Take a Girl Like You, 13, 60, 71, Adventure, 3, 49, 59, 186 72, 73, 75, 90, 92, 111, 112, Crime of the Century, The, 60 131,133-4,137,139,140,141, Difficulties with Girls, 71, 109, 111 177, 187 199 200 Index

Amis, Kingsley - continued 'To Eros', 62 Novels - continued 'Tribute to the Founder, A', 63 That Uncertain Feeling, 9, 13, 40, 'Value of Suffering, The', 61 41,57-8,104,112,139,142 'Wrong Words', 61 Short stories Poetry 'All the Blood Within Me', 150 'A.E.H.', 169 'Court of Inquiry', 155, 156 'After Goliath', 15, 172 'Darkwater Hall Mystery, The', Romanticism', 61, 169 'Against 152, 153, 164 'Belgian Winter', 5 'Dear musion', 159-61 'Beowulf', 171 'Friends of Plonk, The', 151, 161 64 'Bobby Bailey', 'Hemingway in Space', 43 (radio A', 11, 62, 172, 'Bookshop Idyll, programme), 151, 161, 162- 175--6 3 Passing-Note, A', 'Chromatic 'House on the Headland, The', 177-8 152, 164-5 'Coming of Age', 169 'I Spy Strangers', 135, 150, 156-8 'Crisis Song', 64 'Mason's Life', 152 'Dream of Fair Women, A', 175 'My Enemy's Enemy', 134--5, 150, 'Equal Made', 170 154-5 'Evans Country, The', 10, 64, 167, 'Something Strange', 43 (radio 178-9 programme), 151, 161, 162- 'Ever Fixed Mark, An', 63 3 Blues', 64, 181-2 'Farewell 'To See the Sun', 152, 165 'Festival Notebook', 168 'Too Much Trouble', 151, 161 64 'Fforestfawr', '2003 Claret, The', 151, 162 63, 169-70 'Green Heart', 'Who or What Was It?', 152, 153, 'Gulls', 62 163-4, 165 1n Memoriam W.R.A.', 15, 64 'Last War, The', 61, 169 Criticism 'Letter to Elisabeth', 61, 174 BUzek Paper, 14, 184, 185 'Lovely', 173, 180 'Evening with Dylan Thomas, 'Masters', 12, 61, 72, 174-5 An',23 'New Approach Needed', 63 Faber Popular Reciter, The (editor), 'Note on Wyatt, A', 62 179 'Nothing to Fear', 13, 63 'Introduction', The Golden Age of 'Ode to Me', 64, 168, 179-80 Science Fiction, 55, 56 'On Staying Still', 61 New Maps of Hell, 42-3, 49, 51, 'Reasons', 64 55, 59, 152 'Reunion, A', 64, 17~1 'No More Parades', 22 'Romance', 176-7 On Drink,20 'Shitty' I 180 Spectrum (editor), 14, 49 'Sight Unseen', 63 'Unreal Policemen', 20 'Silent Room, The', 62 What Became of Jane Austen? and 'Song of apeiience', f,2-3 Other Questions, 48, 139 'Sources of the Past, "The~, 62 Amis, Martin, 2, 3, 4, 9, 113, 117; 'South', 168 Money,4 'Their Oxford', 170, 1~1 Amis, Philip, 2,.3, 9 'Three Scenarios', 64, 168 Amis, Sally, 9 Index 201

Analog, 4, 43, 46; see also Astounding Chaucer, 56, 140 Science Fiction Chekhov, Anton, 149 Angry Young Men, 3, 8, 41, 66, 67, Collins, Wilkie, 59 68-9, 130, 183 Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 37 Arlott, John, 31 Connolly, Cyril, 186 Asimov, Isaac, 41 Connolly, Joseph, 100 Astounding Science Fiction, 40-1, 43, Conquest, Robert, 12, 19, 49 46; see also Analog Conrad, Joseph, 151 Atwood, Margaret, 61; The Cooper, w~, 2 Handmaid's Tale, 184 Cropper, Martin, 107 Auden, W. H., 61, 174 Austen, Jane, 92 de Camp, L. Sprague, 41 Dick, Philip K., The Man in the High Bach, Johann Christian, 28 Castle, 44 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 28 Dickens, Charles, 92, 106; Edwin Balzac, Honore de, 92 Drood, 59; The Pickwic1c Papers, Bard~ell,ffihuy,2,3,7,31,53 58 Bayley, John, 174 Dickinson, Emily, 23 Beckett, Samuel, 64; Acts without Disch, Tom, 61 Words,S0-1 ~toevsky,Fyodo~67 Bennett, Arnold, The Old Wives' Drabble, Margaret, 47, The Ice Age, Tale, 145 82,83-6 Bergonzi, Bernard, 74 Betjeman, Sir John, 2, 15, 60, 64, Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose, 173 47 Billington, Michael, 115 Ehrlichman, John, 176 Blackmur, R. P., 52 Eliot, T. S., 70, 140, 186; 'The Love B~e, W~,67 Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', 77; B~e~ay, John, 'Mexican Pete', 11; The WllSte Land, 1, 83, 178 'Eskimo Nell', 11 Empson, w~, 171, 177 Bone, Gavin, 2 Enright, D. J., 61; Poets of the 1950s Bos~ell, 18 (editor), 69-70 Bradbury, Malcolm, 106, 115-16, Ervin, Senator Sam, 176 129, 143-4 Everett, Barbara, 102-3 Bradbury, Ray, 'A Sound of Thunder', 96 Faulkner, W~, 23, 28 Braine, John, 81-2, 105, 129 Feinstein, Elaine, 61 British Science Fiction Association, Fielding, Henry, 58, 69, 106, 138- 42,51-2 9,148 Burgess, Anthony, 37, 41, 1~9, First Festival of Science Fiction 129; A Clockwork Orange, 55; Film, 53-4 E~by,80;1985,86-7 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 7, 177 Burton, Sir Richard, 47 Ford, Ford Madox, The Good Soldier, 118 Campbell, John W., 41, 46 Forster, E. M., 175 Camus,67 Fo~les, John, 129; Daniel Martin, 82 Carey, Jobn. 186 F~C&ar,63 Caton. N. S., 61 JlraNclln. Bnxe, f~ Ptrf«t, 152 Cavafy, 28 Pruer, Ruaeell, 36 202 Index

Frazer, James, The Golden Bough, Juvenal, 168 165 Freud, Sigmund, 81 Keeley, Mary, 29 Frost, Robert, 181 Kiely, Robert, 73 Fuller, Roy, 9, 16, 61 Kierkegaard, Smen, 67 Fussell, Paul, 33 Kennedy, Edward, 19 Fussell, Roy, 9, 16, 61 Ketterer, David, New Worlds for Old, Fussell, Sam, 33 152 Fussell, Tucky, 33 Ketton-Cremer, Wyndham, 8 King, Francis, 71 Gllilxy,49 King, ~Luther, 38 Gallun, Raymond Z., 41 Kipling, Rudyard, 4 Gissing, George, 152 Golding, William, 183, 187; Larkin,FtUtip, 1,2,4,15,22,23, Darkness Visible, 82-3 49, 61, 70, 101, 167, 173, 175, Graves, Robert, 16, 61-3, 171; The 182, 186; 'Annus ~bills', 71; White Goddess, 165 'The Card-Players', 92; Jill, 14; Greene, Cunningham, 151 The North Ship, 174; 'Toads', 77; Greene, Graham, 14, 57; The Quiet 'The Whitsun Weddings', 58 American, 118 Lawrence, D. H., 63, 140, 151, 165 Grice, H. P., 121 Leavis, F. R., 3, 11 Lee-Hamilton, Eugene, 62 Hardy, Thomas, 64, 75; 'Friends Lessing, Doris, Briefing for a Descent Beyond', 181 into Hell, 151 Harrison, Harry, Detlthworld, 46 Levin, Bernard, 19 Harrison, Joan, 47 Lewis, C. S., 4, 48 Harrison,~oira,54 Lewis, Russell B., 18, 19 Harrison, Todd, 54 Lodge, David, 72, 103, 105, 106 Hart-Davis, Robert, 7 Lucian, 96 Heath-Stubbs, John, 169 Lyttelton, George, 7 Heinlein, Robert A., 41 Hemingway, Ernest, 23 McEwan, Neil, 106 Homer, The Rilul, 23 Milgazine of Fantllsy and Science Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 3, 4, 29, Fiction, The, 49 33, 36, 37, 39; Something in ~er, Norman, 165 Disguise, 37 Maschler, Tom, 29 Hubbard, L. Ron, 41 ~d, Ray, The Miln with the X- Hudges, David, 107 Rily Eyes, 47 Hudson, W. H., 151 ~er, P. Schuyler, 41 ~oli~re, 13 James, Oive, 70, 186 ~onteith, Charles, 48 James, Henry, 23, 140; The ~ontgomery, Bruce, Best SF, 42; A~,~;TheAw~ Doctor in the House, 42 Age, 90 ~ore, Sir Thomas, 96 Johnson, B. S., 129, 183 ~orris,Jane,63 Johnson, Samuel, 18, 168 ~otherlant, 12 Jones, Sir Laurence, 7 ~ovementthe,2-3,~, 167 Joyce, James, 148, 149, 186; ~ozart, 67 Finnegans Wake, 56; Ulysses, 1 ~urdoch,lris,4, 129,183 Index 203

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 67 Spender, Stephen, 11, 186 Nixon, Richard, 19 Storey, David, 129 Nobokov, Vladimir, 186 Swift, Jonathan, 8, 58, 96, 174; 'Modest Proposal', 96 Oakes, Philip, 15 Szamuely, Tibor, 19 ~ell,George,1984,47,55,86 Osborne, John, 105; Look Back in Tacitus, 29-30 Anger, 68, 76-7 Tallis, Raymond, 104 ~en, vv~,61 Thatcher, Margaret, 168 Thomas, Dylan, 12, 23, 69, 97, 112, Piper, H. Beam, 41 117, 139, 147, 186 Pope,AJexande~58, 138-9 To~toy, Leo,28,92 Porter, Brigitte, 36, 37, 38 Porter, Kirk, 38 Updike, John, 61, 165 Pound, Ezra, 70 Upward, Edward, 16 Powell, Anthony, 15, 19, 37, 71, 103; A Dance to the Music of Vaizey, Lord John, 108 Time, 159 van Vogt, A. E., 41 Powys, John Cowper, 152 Pritchard, VVilliam H., 100 ·vvam, John, 2, 120 VVatkins, Alan, 100 Quigley, Isabel, 183 VVaugh, Evelyn, 4, 9, 21, 37, 65, 92, 115, 116, 139, 143-5, 150, 159, Richardson, Samuel, 92 167, 171, 183; Decline and Fall, Rimsky-Korsakov, 63 57; Helena, 115; The Ordelll of Roberts, Keith, 44; Pavane, 96 Gilbert Pinfold, 66, 115; Rossetti, Robson, VV. VV., 41, 109 139; Sword of Honour, 144 Roth, Philip, Portnoy's Complaint, 23 VVells, H. G., The Time Machine, 55 Rubenstein, Hilary, 48 VVmon, Angus, 129 VVmon, Colin, The Outsider, 67 Sarban, The Sound of His Horn, 43, VVodehouse, P. G., 4, 73, 74 44,59 VVoolf, Virginia, 186 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 67 VVordsworth, Dorothy, 41 Shakespeare, 171; Cymbeline, 93; VVordsworth, VVilliam, 41 Hamlet, 141 VVorld Convention, 53 Sillitoe, Alan, 105; Saturday Night VVyndham, John, 44 and Sunday Morning, 82 Sitwell, Edith, 186 Yeats, VVilliam Butler, 61, 70, 174, Smollett, Tobias, 106 177 Society for Creative Anachronisms, Yevtushenko, Uevgeny,75 the, 51-2 Spark, Muriel, 129 Zola, Emile, 152