Enemies of Promise

Name: Enemies of Promise
Author: Cyril Connolly

by Cyril Connolly

Connolly's essay on threats to literary talent—idleness, the pursuit of money, and worldly success

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Cyril Connolly

English literary critic and editor whose Enemies of Promise analyzed why writers fail to produce lasting work and whose The Unquiet Grave is a melancholy masterpiece of aphorism and self-examination. As editor of Horizon, he published the most important British literary magazine of the war years.

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The Unquiet GravePhilosophical miscellany of Connolly's aphorisms, travel observations, and reflections on art and mortality
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