Bibliograph

Writing in the dark, Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon magazine, Will Loxley

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Label

Writing in the dark, Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon magazine, Will Loxley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing in the dark

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1124967074

Responsibility statement

Will Loxley

Sub title

Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon magazine

Summary

"Amid the sleepless nights of constant explosion and gunfire and the discomfort, grief and primordial fear, the little office at 6 Lansdowne Terrace seemed to hold intact everything that was great or beautiful about human life. As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of war. In Writing in the Dark, Will Loxley conjures up this brooding world and tells the story of the defiant magazine Horizon, which sprung up against the odds. Interweaving the personal histories of the magazine's leaders Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and John Lehmann, with their friends and contemporaries Virginia Woolf, George Orwell and Dylan Thomas, as well as many more names both familiar and not, Will brings us into these writers' homes and into the little offices at 6 Lansdowne Terrace. Writing in the Dark captures the literary life of WWII, fusing the exhausted melancholy in the aftermath of the Blitz with changes in the writers' own lives, as they moved from city to countryside, from youth to middle age"--, Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Part 1. Darkness as thick as hell (1939-41) -- 1. Long goodbye -- 2. Dishonorable gentlemen -- 3. Two Bloomsbury -- 4. Memories -- 5. Towards the fire -- 6. The pain two lowers inflict -- 7. England their England -- 8. Now we are in the war -- 9. The grey light of morning -- 10. The wave lapping blue to the shore -- Part 2. Desks, boiler suits and bunks (1943-45) -- 11. A new kind of warfare -- 12. I am only myself in the dark -- 13. Epitaphs -- 14. Cocktails, and the greatest evil ever committed -- 15. Men at arms -- 16. Flying bombs -- 17. City of lights -- 18. 'Where are the war poets?'

Target audience

adult

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