Literary Odds & Ends

gathered by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

George Orwell on Writing

In September 2006, All Things Considered invited Lawrence Wright to talk about Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946).

The essay is available on-line in a number of places.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

JKC at 9:38 AM

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JKC: Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec teaches English at the University of Caen in Normandy. She is co-editor of "La poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité" (L'Harmattan, 2007), "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now" (CSP, 2012), "Poetry & Religion: Figures of the Sacred" (Peter Lang, 2013), "European Voices in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill" (Peter Lang, 2015). Her research interests include Contemporary Poetry, British and American Literature, especially Literature in conjunction with Memory, History, Religion, and War.

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