Calibre app by koval9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() McGregor & Lewis have looked at the life of Dorothy L Sayers & tell the story of how she came to write the Wimsey books. However, seeing it in a recommended list of e-books on Amazon was enough to inspire me to download it & read it again over the last few days. It was written in 2000 & I'm almost sure I read it back then. As Sayers is my favourite Golden Age detective novelist, this book was always going to appeal to me. The authors have combined literary criticism & social history to place Peter Wimsey & Dorothy L Sayers in the England of the interwar period. The subtitle of this book is England, Dorothy L Sayers & Lord Peter Wimsey. He came to life as the long week-end began in the wake of the Great War he disappeared as World War II sealed the week-end's close. ![]() Unlike practically any of the other famous fictional detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey's career was fully defined by a single epoch. the fictional history of Peter Wimsey has become emblematic of its time. It sent me off to the bookshelves to look up the poem & while I was reading bits & pieces of it, I came across this lovely poem, so appropriate for the New Year. A couple of weeks ago, I read an interesting review of a new biography of Tennyson &, of course, it mentioned In Memoriam, his most famous work, written in response to the death of his great friend, Arthur Hallam. In the wonderful photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron, in the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites that took his poetry for inspiration & in the reminiscences of the great & good of Victorian England. He's not a poet I've read much of but he's always been there in the background of my reading. I've been thinking about Tennyson (picture from here) lately. ![]()
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