Anthony Burgess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5719786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Burgess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgess |
| SIGNATURE | BURGESS A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imperfect Man
The AnaChronisT would like to express the editors’ sincerest gratitude to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester and director Prof. Andrew Biswell for giving us permission to publish this most valuable essay for the first time. The only changes made by the editors were some very minor corrections concerning a few obvious typographical errors and the standardisation of certain recurring expressions
A Mouthful of Air
W.B. Yeats wrote of a poem that he it out of a mouthful of air. All language, argues the author, is made this way. Although we tend to think of literature as scratching of signs on paper, the essence of language from which it derives is primarily so much air, a mouthful at a time - an oral rather than a visual medium. Burgess goes on to present a broad survey of the history, development and cross-fertilization of languages - with all its quirks a…
Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, Vol. 1: 1638–1660
This calendar provides, with full annotation and indexes, the substance of the complete surviving correspondence of the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, making available a rich source for the religious, political, and cultural history of the 17th century.
European Culture
In my little chalet in Italian Switzerland the surrounding mountains, which are not yet Alps, sometimes keep me awake. And so, at 3:00 a.m. the other night or morning I listened to the BBC Overseas Service. This, in Switzerland at least, is something of a cheat. We are promised the news in English, Big Ben tolls as an earnest of this, and then the news comes on in Greek or Kuo-Yii. Still, God bless the BBC, that unstillable voice that is evidentl…
Sophocles. Oedipus the King
La folle semence
Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene
I had better begin by making my own position clear. I come of an old though not particularly distinguished Lancashire Catholic family, one that held to the faith through the Reformation and had its quota of undistinguished martyrs, was Royalist during the Civil War and hid its quota of undistinguished Royalist leaders in huts in Lancashire cloughs, and supported the Pretenders after i688. There are several such families in England, particularly i…
The Long Day Wanes
Shakespeare in Music
Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene
I had better begin by making my own position clear. I come of an old though not particularly distinguished Lancashire Catholic family, one that held to the faith through the Reformation and had its quota of undistinguished martyrs, was Royalist during the Civil War and hid its quota of undistinguished Royalist leaders in huts in Lancashire cloughs, and supported the Pretenders after i688. There are several such families in England, particularly i…
Shakespeare in Music
The Long Day Wanes
Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene
I had better begin by making my own position clear. I come of an old though not particularly distinguished Lancashire Catholic family, one that held to the faith through the Reformation and had its quota of undistinguished martyrs, was Royalist during the Civil War and hid its quota of undistinguished Royalist leaders in huts in Lancashire cloughs, and supported the Pretenders after i688. There are several such families in England, particularly i…
Sophocles. Oedipus the King
La folle semence
Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, Vol. 1: 1638–1660
This calendar provides, with full annotation and indexes, the substance of the complete surviving correspondence of the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, making available a rich source for the religious, political, and cultural history of the 17th century.
European Culture
In my little chalet in Italian Switzerland the surrounding mountains, which are not yet Alps, sometimes keep me awake. And so, at 3:00 a.m. the other night or morning I listened to the BBC Overseas Service. This, in Switzerland at least, is something of a cheat. We are promised the news in English, Big Ben tolls as an earnest of this, and then the news comes on in Greek or Kuo-Yii. Still, God bless the BBC, that unstillable voice that is evidentl…
A Mouthful of Air
W.B. Yeats wrote of a poem that he it out of a mouthful of air. All language, argues the author, is made this way. Although we tend to think of literature as scratching of signs on paper, the essence of language from which it derives is primarily so much air, a mouthful at a time - an oral rather than a visual medium. Burgess goes on to present a broad survey of the history, development and cross-fertilization of languages - with all its quirks a…
Imperfect Man
The AnaChronisT would like to express the editors’ sincerest gratitude to the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester and director Prof. Andrew Biswell for giving us permission to publish this most valuable essay for the first time. The only changes made by the editors were some very minor corrections concerning a few obvious typographical errors and the standardisation of certain recurring expressions
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