Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... Eliot's quarterly magazine Criterion.62 After the war , Eliot had occasionally consulted him on philosophical manuscripts sent in to Faber . In December 1948 Eliot had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . Berlin's view of Eliot ...
... Eliot's quarterly magazine Criterion.62 After the war , Eliot had occasionally consulted him on philosophical manuscripts sent in to Faber . In December 1948 Eliot had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . Berlin's view of Eliot ...
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... Eliot's reply apologised for the dubious sentence in the 1934 Virginia lectures , ' the sentence of which you complain ( with justice ) would of course never have appeared at all at that time , if I had been aware of what was going to ...
... Eliot's reply apologised for the dubious sentence in the 1934 Virginia lectures , ' the sentence of which you complain ( with justice ) would of course never have appeared at all at that time , if I had been aware of what was going to ...
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... Eliot with Koestler's views and not wishing to offend the poet , Berlin removed all reference to Eliot in the version of the essay when it appeared in an Israeli Festschrift . Much later in life , he felt that his politeness had shaded ...
... Eliot with Koestler's views and not wishing to offend the poet , Berlin removed all reference to Eliot in the version of the essay when it appeared in an Israeli Festschrift . Much later in life , he felt that his politeness had shaded ...
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