![]() ![]() Not seeing them all through the centrifuge of Bloomsbury is a relief. Yeats, Henry Green, Elizabeth Longford and Edith Sitwell. Moreover, the extended cast includes some of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: John Betjeman, Vera Brittain, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf, Cecil Day Lewis, Kenneth Clark, W. You certainly don’t need to be a classicist to enjoy this book. Daisy is able to unpack that through her own extensive knowledge, a valuable bridge to the past but also a translator for those of us who don’t have Greek and Latin. Dodds (Univ, 1912) Maurice Bowra (New College, 1919) and overarching both like a great Victorian buttress, their mentor the Regius Professor of Greek from 1908, Gilbert Murray (St John’s, 1884).Ĭlassics, or Greats as it is also known, was the queen subject at Oxford and commanded huge academic weight spilling over into public discourse. The author of this highly original, poignant account of Oxford between the two World Wars, Daisy Dunn (St Hilda’s, 2005 - pictured above) is an accomplished classicist and historian, her last book In Shadow of Vesuvius, a Life of Pliny (2019).ĭaisy’s training is of great significance because Not Far From Brideshead is centrally about classicists and three in particular – E.R. Not far from Brideshead, Oxford Between the Wars by Daisy Dunn (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2022). ![]()
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