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...whole English-speaking world." Anything that has any bearing "on culture or freedom," explains Editor Kristol. "or preferably both together, will be the hub of the magazine." In its first issue, Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles and fiction for the magazine: Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous
...well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...
...English ghosts in general nowadays tend to be literary and neurotic. One is a "novelist of sensibility" with a Virginia Woolf style; another worries, "Am I losing weight?" Among the best of Editor Asquith's pieces...
...undergraduate division, James P. Moffet '51 won a first prize of $500 for his essay entitled, "The Relation of the laner and Outer Lives in the Works of Virginia Woolf." Henry Steele Commager Jr. '54 won the second prize of $300 and Thomas J. McGrath '52 won a $100 third prize...
...Eliot became his kindly mentor and publisher; an independent income relieved him of the rigors of earning a living. Six months of the year he shared a house with Novelist Christopher Isherwood in seamy-gay Berlin; at home, he was wined & dined by Virginia Woolf, rubbed shoulders with William Butler Yeats, Aldous and Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell. Some poets might have been stimulated by all this, but Poet Spender kept finding bumblebees in his blossoms. "In the life of action," he noted sadly, "I do everything that my friends tell me to do, and have no opinions...