Frank Arthur Swinnerton

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

Frank Arthur Swinnerton (1884 - 1982) was an English critic and novelist. He wrote around 50 books. His "The Georgian Literary Scene 1910-1935" (1935) describes his "milieu", of the gentlemanly man of letters, in what turned out to be its final years. To quote:

:"If I dwell for a moment longer, as I fear I must, upon the weakness of too much scholarship in the arts, it is because I think scholarship is nowadays excessively valued as a necessary preliminary to creative writing."

This "a propos" the 'excesses' of Dorothy L. Sayers.

Selected bibliography

* "Figures in the Foreground, Literary Reminiscences 1917-1940
* "Nocturne"
* "A Bookman's London" revised and reprinted (John Baker, 1969)

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