Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon forgot the whole affair, but the world will not soon forget the jellyfish. Its sting preserved to literature a fierce peculiar genius who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters. In 15 novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious and yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that...
...COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. A beauty, a wit, an essayist admired by Addison, a satirist who rivaled Pope, Lady Mary was also acclaimed the greatest of the great letter writers of the 18th century...
...soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened to them was marginal. In such a frustrating scheme of things, outbursts of personal rage must have been no small social problem. The Ship of Fools, a 15th century compilation of doggerel homiletics by a German satirist named Sebastian Brant, warns that...
...COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. A beauty, a wit, an essayist admired by Addison, a satirist who rivaled Pope, Lady Mary was also acclaimed the greatest of the great letter writers of the 18th century...
Anthony Burgess, also an English Catholic satirist, tells of a painful, three-year tour of duty on Gibraltar during and after the end of World War II. There he suffered not only the unrewarding frustrations of rear-echelon soldiering, but also the discovery-agonizing for a young man-that his vocation for music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born...