Lyndall Gordon at The Hudson Review: If you’re eccentric, you’re all right. ” This is how Humphrey Carpenter, biographer of W. Auden, Ezra Pound and Benjamin Britten, explained the British character to me as an expatriate South African.
Auden, Ezra Pound and Benjamin Britten, explained the British character to me as an expatriate South African. It was 1993, and we were sitting at the table in my Oxford ki.