Frank Arthur Swinnerton Summary

In 1978 Frank Swinnerton published his sixty-first book, Arnold Bennett: A Last Word. Two years earlier, at the age of ninety-two, he published his forty-first novel, Some Achieve Greatness. It is cle... Read more

Critical Essay by H. G. Wells [Mr. Swinnerton] sees life and renders it with a steadiness and detachment and patience quite foreign to my disposition. He has no underlying motive. He sees and tells. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch [The Georgian Scene] contains essays on approximately seventy-five writers who range in time from Henry James to T. S. Eliot and in importance from Shaw and Benne... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement To use the word "old-fashioned" in describing [Harvest Comedy] is to praise it highly, for it is old-fashioned in the sense that it tells... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement The title of Mr. Swinnerton's new book [The Doctor's Wife Comes to Stay] is Trollopean, and so in a sense is the story. An energetic and ... Read more

Critical Essay by Ernest Buckler Near 80, Verdi composed "Falstaff", at 80, England's Frank Swinnerton writes "Quadrille." "Quadrille" is no "F... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement It would be hard to maintain that Nor All Thy Tears comes up to the standard of [Swinnerton's] best fiction, since despite its lively constructi... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Ackroyd What a familiar ring it has, 'the novel.' A comfort to the spinster and the secretary, and a temporary refuge for 'the reader' in an imagin... Read more

Critical Essay by Lola Ridge The structure of [Nocturne] is almost classic. The events take place in the course of a single night. And each chapter folds upon the other without visible apertures or c... Read more

Critical Essay by Rebecca West It is not clear why Mr. Frank Swinnerton has called his new novel Coquette. A coquette, one had always understood, was a lady who loved the work for its own sake, who f... Read more

Critical Essay by P. C. Kennedy [Here] is a literary problem for you. Read the following passage, and guess who wrote it: Mr. Sims was in a better position than either Mr. Leicester or Mr. Twist.... Read more

Critical Essay by Basil Davenport In ["The Georgian House"] the author has assembled a number of well-tried and generally reliable ingredients: an old-fashioned house with a secret pane... Read more