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...this heavily illustrated but rather thin collection of essays and recollections by British friends and critics. It must be said that the big fish sails easily past all 18 contributors, but by now Orwell's admirers are willing to settle for discussions of tackle. Novelist-Critic John Wain and Journalist Ian Hamilton write knowledgeably about Orwell's extraordinary intellectual independence and social concern in the '30s. Critics William Empson and Malcolm Muggeridge provide more personal touches about the last decade of his life. Almost a quarter of the book is pictures. The best, of the saucy...
...some dating to the 13th century reign of Edward I. Most notable was her right to claim the tail of any whale washed up on the shores of England or Wales, or of any whale washed up in Scotland that proved too large to be dragged off on a "wain with six oxen...
...recent article in Encounter, the English poet and critic John Wain complained about the present "flabby, soggy period of instant poetry," and said that "the poet is seen more and more as a person who appears in public and strikes attitudes. As rhetoric disappears from political life . . . it seems to be making a backstairs re-entry via the 'poetry reading.'" Wain thinks we have lost our sense of discipline in the search for immediacy, and he predicts that if crowd-pleasing has become a criterion of excellence, poetry, which has lasted for thousands of years, has a future "no longer...
...been less flattering to U.S. readers. For example, British writing is meagerly represented by Angus Wilson, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. There are no stories by two great English stylists, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, by Anthony Burgess or V.S. Pritchett, or by those writers, like Coljn Maclnnes, John Wain or Kingsley Amis, who have given voice to the enhanced position of the British working class-"the people of England who have not spoken yet," as Chesterton wrote nearly two generations...
...YOUNG VISITORS by John Wain. 214 pages. Viking...