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Norman Douglas

 

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George Norman Douglas : South Wind

'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. And with the Mediterranean in mind, he read D.H. Lawrence's "Sea and Sardinia" and Norman Douglas's "South Wind"'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell      Print: Book

  

Norman Douglas : unknown

'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall try to place it where it may be judged sympathetically.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Norman Douglas : D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners

Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners (1924).

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

Norman Douglas : Together

Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, opening: 'How many avenues of delight are closed to the mere moralist or immoralist who knows nothing of things extra-human; who remains absorbed in mankind and its half-dozen motives of conduct, so unstable yet forever the same, which we all fathomed before we were twenty!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

Norman Douglas : The Island of Typhoeus

'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Norman Douglas : The Isle of Typhoeus

'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Vespers massacre] interested us very much.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Sheet

  

Norman Douglas : Siren Land

His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished and interesting pice of work.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Norman Douglas : The Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited in evidence

'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The "[The]Headland of Minerva" and the "Caves of [the]S[iren Land]" I just cut in half. The "Upland[s] of Sorrento" I sent whole. I did this to give your prose a better chance for they are everlastingly cramped for room in that Review. Of course I didn't touch the text.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Norman Douglas : unidentified

'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Norman Douglas : Siren Land

'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted. There are mighty fine things there.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

Norman Douglas : Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia

'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 lines of praise and constructive commentary.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

 

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