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...professional man of letters, like the shepherd and the blacksmith, is a vanishing species, found mainly in the British Isles. William Plomer, who died in 1973 at the age of 69, was a notable specimen. He made his debut at 21 with Turbott Wolfe, a novel that Leonard and Virginia Woolf recognized as a minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Master | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Voyage en Grande Garabagne. Henri de Montherlant, Les Jeunes Filles. Marianne Moore, Selected Poems. George Moore, Memoirs of My Dead Life. George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984. Wilfred Owen, Poems. William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe. Ezra Pound, Lustra & Mauberley, The Pisan

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CONNOLLY'S HUNDRED | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

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