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In 1922, Connolly achieved academic success winning the Rosebery History Prize, and followed by the Brackenbury History scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. In the spring, he visited St Cyprian's to report his achievement to his old headmaster before setting off on a trip to Spain with a school friend.
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.
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.
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.
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 the creative writing course, DJ...
Connolly's favourite themes include the dangers of early success and the hazardous lure of literary immortality, but he also celebrated the ephemeral pleasure of food, wine, and travel. From: Connolly, Cyril in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
May 18, 2018 · Cyril Connolly >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).
