Bernard Bergonzi

Bernard Bergonzi Royal Society of Literature FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British poet, literary scholar, critic, and professor of English. Quotes As Wells insists, many of Verne's inventions have materialized since his time. Submarine travel is a commonplace, and the circumnavigation of the moon is more than a possibility. Well's imaginings, however, remain as unattainable now as when he wrote: no one has yet contrived to travel through time, or The Plattner Story spend several days in the Fourth Dimension of space; we are still unable to The Invisible Man make ourselves invisible, nor can we The Island of Doctor Moreau transform animals into men by surgical means. Chapter I. Section 5 The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances illustrated 1st University of Toronto Press 1961 9781442633551 https://books.google.com/books?id=-TdEDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT25 (236 pages) The Writer#Literary and creative writers whom we admire to-day do not appear to love their Character (arts) characters, and the Literary criticism critics who appraise their books show no signs of doing so either. For a writer or critic to show delight in a character would would seem to-day rather naïve, an old-fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens and Surtees. Characters, it seems, are no longer objects of affection. The Situation of the Novel 2nd Macmillan 1979 9780333258408 https://books.google.com/books?id=aTlaAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=surtees 43 (249 pages; 1st edition 1970) Arnold Rattenbury was too young to be very active in the 1930s thirties, but in the early 1940s forties he was friendly with several older Communist writers who had been. ... Although I make limiting judgements on Auden in the following pages, his centrality in the 1930s#Literature and art literary life of the thirties seems to me unmistakable. Unlike other hostile critics of 'orthodoxy', Mr Rattenbury does give a hostage to fortune by proposing an alternative. Reading the Thirties: Texts and Contexts Macmillan 1978 9780333235621 https://books.google.com/books?id=te1ZAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=rattenbury 7–8 (157 pages) Quotes about Bernard Bergonzi The poet and critic Bernard Bergonzi, who has died aged 87, was long associated with the teaching of 20th-century English literature at Warwick University. His books shed new light on the English writing of the first world war and the 1930s, and on developments in criticism since the 60s, which he largely disliked. Monographs on HG Wells, TS Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Arnold and Graham Greene showed Bergonzi at his sensible and lucid best. Eric Homberger and David Lodge, Obituary. Bernard Bergonzi 27 September 2016 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/27/bernard-bergonzi-obituary External links Obituary. Bernard Bergonzi, Poet and literary critic known for his work on TS Eliot, HG Wells and Gerard Manley Hopkins The Times 21 December 2016 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/bernard-bergonzi-xv3fbhglq Category:1929 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Academics from England Category:Biographers from England Category:Educators from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Literary critics Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:People from London Category:Poets from England Category:University of Oxford alumni