Hugh Kingsmill era scrittore, giornalista.
“What, still alive at twenty-two,
A clean upstanding chap like you?”
"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 1, line 1 (1933)
The opening of a Housman parody which the subject himself called "The best I have seen, and indeed the only good one." (Laurence Housman My Brother, A. E. Housman (1938) p. 180)
"Tennyson and W. H. Auden", p. 78
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
Michael Holroyd, in The Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1973) p. 7.
Criticism
"William Gerhardi", p. 131
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
"The Progress of a Biographer", p. 2
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
Matthew Arnold (1928) p. 89
"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 1, line 5
"The Genealogy of Hitler", section 1, The Poisoned Crown (1944)
"Oscar Wilde's Fairy Godmother", The Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1973) p. 278 (1948)
“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.”
"Rudyard Kipling", p. 31
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
“Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.”
"Biography and Criticism", p. 160
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 2, line 1
"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 156
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)
