Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

D. He remained with the BBC until after the Second World War when he became a freelance writer and remained so for the rest of his life. LOWBROWMAN: Oh I don't know I rather like a good bit of old-fashioned vulgarity.

The books were adapted for the cinema in the 1960s and for television in the 1970s. He then studied English at Oxford and after some false starts he spent his early working life as an academic lecturing in English literature at Birkbeck College part of the University of London during which time he publiStephen Potterd several works on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After leaving school in the last months of the First World War he was commissioned as a junior officer in the British army but by the time he had completed his training the war was over and he was demobilised.