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John Middleton Murry (1889–1957)

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(eng) John Middleton Murry JUNIOR, the son of the better known editor and Keats scholar (etc), was also a writer usually under the pseudonyms Richard Cowper or Colin Murry. The books of JMM father and son should of course not be combined, and Middleton Murry Senior (the author of most of the JMM works here) should not be combined as an author with Richard Cowper, as has sometimes been done on LT.

Werken van John Middleton Murry

The problem of style (1922) 43 exemplaren
Shakespeare (1936) 17 exemplaren
Keats (1962) 14 exemplaren
William Blake (1964) 9 exemplaren
The Letters of Katherine Mansfield (vol I) (1930) — Redacteur — 9 exemplaren
Keats and Shakespeare (1925) 9 exemplaren
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1923) 5 exemplaren
Aspects of Literature (1934) 5 exemplaren
The Price of Leadership (1939) 5 exemplaren
Jesus, man of genius 4 exemplaren
The Life of Jesus (1926) 4 exemplaren
Pencillings (1925) 3 exemplaren
Heaven -- and Earth (1938) 3 exemplaren
THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST (1941) 3 exemplaren
Reminiscences of D. H. Lawrence (1977) 3 exemplaren
The Free Society (1948) 3 exemplaren
Christocracy (1943) 3 exemplaren
Heroes of thought (1938) 3 exemplaren
Adam and Eve (1944) 3 exemplaren
Poems, 1917-1918 2 exemplaren
The Necessity of Communism. (1933) 2 exemplaren
Not As The Scribes: Lay Sermons (1960) 2 exemplaren
Community Farm 2 exemplaren
Europe in travail 1 exemplaar
Looking Before and After (1948) 1 exemplaar
Discoveries 1 exemplaar
Things to Come 1 exemplaar
Poems: 1916-20 (2012) 1 exemplaar
Unprofessional essays (1975) 1 exemplaar
Studies in Keats, new and old, (1939) 1 exemplaar
The Adelphi 1 exemplaar
Still Life. A novel (1916) 1 exemplaar
The Adelphi, Vol. I. No. 3, August 1923 (1923) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
The ADELPHI. Vol. I, No. 4. September 1923. (1923) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
The Adelphi. Vol. I [1] No. 2 (1923) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
The Novels of Henry Williamson (1986) 1 exemplaar
Democracy and war 1 exemplaar
Poems 1916 - 20 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1889-08-06
Overlijdensdatum
1957-03-13
Graflocatie
Thelnetham Church, Suffolk, England, UK
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
England
UK
Geboorteplaats
Peckham, London, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
Woonplaatsen
London, England, UK
Opleiding
Oxford University (Brasenose College)
Christ's Hospital, West Sussex, England, UK
Beroepen
writer
critic
editor (literary)
author
Relaties
Mansfield, Katherine (wife)
Cowper, Richard (son)
Ontwarringsbericht
John Middleton Murry JUNIOR, the son of the better known editor and Keats scholar (etc), was also a writer usually under the pseudonyms Richard Cowper or Colin Murry. The books of JMM father and son should of course not be combined, and Middleton Murry Senior (the author of most of the JMM works here) should not be combined as an author with Richard Cowper, as has sometimes been done on LT.

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John Middleton Murry, aged thirty-two, had already achieved prominence as a critic through editing a series of literary journals, most notably The Athenaeum, when he was invited to give six lectures at Oxford in the summer term 1921. They are reprinted here.
In the first lecture, appropriately enough, Murry grapples with the question of what we mean by style. Style, Murry asserts, is a term often used vaguely. He outlines three senses of the term. The most basic is the simple ability to marshal what you want to say in a way readers can follow. One with no sense of formulating a sentence or organizing a paragraph has no style, we say. Then there is style as idiosyncrasy (which Murry actually treats first). Show me one paragraph selected at random written by Karl Barth and I can identify the author. Readers more skilled than I will invariably not only do the same with Henry James, but tell you if it’s from his early, middle, or late period. Finally, there is what Murry calls Style Absolute; “a complete fusion of the personal and the universal.” This, Murry tells us, is the highest achievement of literature.
The absolute master of Style Absolute is (spoiler alert not necessary) Shakespeare. Also highly rated is Keats and, among authors active in Murry’s day, Hardy.
This doesn’t strike me as controversial, but apparently at the time this was an unabashedly elitist position, taken in opposition to those who decried style as unnecessary ornament and who advocated a flat style.
Not until the fourth lecture, however, does Murry deal with what he calls the central problem of style. This is the application of qualities of other art forms (rhythm from music and visual imagery from painting). These can also be qualities of written style, Murry concedes, but they are subordinate. The essential quality, however, is precision, also called crystallization. It seemed surprising at first that one means of achieving this, according to Murry, is metaphor. Rather than being an ornament, it is at times the most effective way to convey emotion (which he values—in the case of literature—above intellectual precision). And “in literature,” he assures us, “thought is always the handmaid of emotion.”
In the end, it seems, style is not technique. It comes from clear thought and honest feeling. As Murry writes: even “the smallest writer can do something to ensure that his individuality is not lost, by trying to make sure that he feels what he thinks he feels;—that he thinks what he thinks he thinks, that his words mean what he thinks they mean.”
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Leden
262
Populariteit
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ISBNs
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