Titlebook: Kingsley Amis; An English Moralist John McDermott Book 1989 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989 Britain.Eng

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The Old Devil,efully be made with (for example) Pynchon, Shaw and, ., Mailer.. Making the 1950s sound more remote than ever, the recent ., in its chapter headed ‘Ink/great books/Forty Must-Haves, Hiply Writ’ carries this entry on what is probably a seminal text:

Outwit

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The Hero as Bastard,at they want; the heroes, that is, are no longer simply ‘detectors of bastards but become bastards themselves’, as Bradbury puts it. None is unaware of his shortcomings, and each considers the possibility of improvement, from the inert velleities of Roger to the genuine reformation of Ronnie.

鎮(zhèn)痛劑

A Nobbler of Pegasus,ction. To say as much is to begin to rebut, for example, Michael Schmidt’s claim that ‘[although] Kingsley Amis has written good poems … they do not add up in the way that Larkin’s or Graham’s do. They are in a sense peripheral to Amis’s other work and to English poetry’.

Aspiration