Tag Archives: Anthony Powell

Novel: Memoir: Biography

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Tobias Harper

Michael Barber’s Anthony Powell: A Life Early last summer I re-read Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. It was as entertaining as I remembered it to be and, motivated both by curiosity and the sense that they might … Continue reading →

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The Chatterley Trial and Anthony Powell

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Tobias Harper

Undergraduate classes and general histories of modern Britain invariably quote Philip Larkin’s famous lines: ‘Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixy-three/Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Beatles’ first LP’. The trial over whether Lady Chatterley’s Lover was fit reading for … Continue reading →

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