> Francis Berry was also deeply admired by G.Wilson Knight, one the oddest
> imaginative loopy and interesting donnish literary critics and
expostulators
> of the just gone century, and too, from a totally different angle, rated
by
> the Group host, Edward Lucie-Smith.
>
> Which means he had fans among both acolytes of John Cowper Powys and
Philip
> Hobsbawn.
[Hobsbaum -- Eric was the Left (historian) Wing One]
Dave:
Two qualifications.
ELS was (IMHO) secondary to Philip Hobsbaum in The Group.
And sure as hell, it was PH who turned Lucie-Smith onto Berry.
Robin
(drinking his brother's Good Wine)
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