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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 ...
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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.
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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).
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Cyril Connolly was the chair of the Booker Prize in 1972 and the editor of Horizon magazine, where he befriended many famous writers. He wrote Enemies of Promise, a memoir of his literary failures, and coined the definition of literature and journalism.
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.
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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...
Oct 26, 2002 · Unhappy in love, paranoid, fed up with London and duplicitous friends, the young Cyril Connolly flees to Paris for consolation and takes a room at the Hôtel de la Louisiane on the Left Bank ...
