Word: fantastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this and every issue--except the fifth, which relied on a short story--has been a significant interview with a prominent writer (such as W. H. Auden or John Barth). Carter Wilson's superbly conducted discussion with Borges is perhaps the most enlightening piece published about the Argentine fantast...
...scholarly without being bookish. (He deprecates "Cyclical Light," an early poem, as "priggish." "Of course I was young when I wrote it. I had to work in all those Greek names.") The broad background frames but never inhibits his intelligent, singular and personal world. Robert Lowell, introducing the fantast at a reading Wednesday night, called Borges' work amid that of other writers "always an oasis in a sea of competence...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...
Best Reading The Complete Ronald Firbank. The collected fiction, all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs, of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years...