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Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of ...
Cyril Connolly was an English critic, novelist, and man of letters, founder and editor of Horizon, a magazine of contemporary literature that was a major influence in Britain in its time (1939–50). As a critic, he was personal and eclectic rather than systematic, but his idiosyncratic views were.
May 18, 2018 · A British novelist and literary and social critic, Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) is best known for two works which combine criticism with autobiography, Enemies of Promise (1938) and The Unquiet Grave (1944).
Cyril Connolly was the celebrated critic-editor of Horizon magazine. His book Enemies of Promise, about why he failed to become a novelist, has become the sacred text of literary underachievers ever since. Connolly’s early friends included George Orwell, Cecil Beaton and Kenneth Clark.
Enemies of Promise is a critical and autobiographical work by English writer Cyril Connolly published in 1938, later enlarged when it was first reprinted in 1948. Together with The Unquiet Grave (1944), it is one of the two books for which the author is mainly remembered.
Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire in 1903. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford he was a regular contributor to the New Statesman in the 1930s. Connolly also co-edited Horizon (1939-41) with Stephen Spender and later was literary editor of the The Observer.
Jan 1, 2016 · The modern enemies of promise. In 1938, Cyril Connolly’s Enemies of Promise identified domesticity, drink, journalism and politics as snares for the apprentice writer. In an age of Amazon and...
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