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 This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . Lawrence Durrell (February 27, 1912 (India) – November 7, 1990 (France))... 
 
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Lawrence Durrell | | Birth Date: |
February 27, 1912 | | Death Date: |
November 7, 1990 | | Place of Birth: |
Darjeeling, India | | Place of Death: |
Sommieres, France | | Nationality: |
Irish | | Gender: |
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author, poet, novelist, playwright |
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 Biography of Lawrence Durrell
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A prolific British author, Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) wrote several large-scale, multi-volume series of novels as well as poetry, plays, short stories, and travel books. People and places of the Mediterranean were a central theme of his work.... summary from source:
Biography of Lawrence Durrell
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 A follower in the footsteps of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce, Lawrence Durrell explored in his novels the quintessential concerns of the twentieth century: space, time, consciousness, sexuality, and identity. Equally at home in all the genres of... summary from source:
 Biography of Lawrence (George) Durrell
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Until 1957 Lawrence Durrell was an ordinary disaffected Englishman with a passion for writing, seemingly destined to live his life in a series of remote Mediterranean isles in the shadow of his renowned brother Gerald. In that year, however, he...
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Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been...
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 The Economist (US) Lawrence Durrell.
05/16/1998: 533 words, approx. 2 pages LAWRENCE DURRELL. By Ian MacNiven. Faber & Faber; 832 pages; $46.95 and K25 WHEN, late in life, Lawrence Durrell visited Montreal for the first time, he wrote to a friend that he had been surprised by the city's unexpected resemblance to San Francisco.... summary from source:
ANQ Not in the collected poems of Lawrence Durrell.(Bibliography)
01/01/2007: 596 words, approx. 2 pages In an article on the verse of Hilaire Belloc in Studies in Bibliography, 45 (1992), I suggested that the complete collection of the poetry of a writer should include not only juvenilia but also scraps of verse or whole poems embedded in the writer's...
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 Critical Essay by G. S. Fraser
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The one genre of writing in which Durrell … has not achieved either popular or critical success, is the verse play…. Though full of beautiful passages of lyrical and meditative verse, [Sappho, his first play in this genre,] perhaps lacks the tensions and confrontations that are proper to drama; it is more like a versification of one of Landor's Imaginary Conversations. In his next verse play, Acte, Durrell took this lesson to heart, and it is a melodrama in the style of Corneille, about... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Alan Jenkins
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Durrell's "ideas" are in some ways the most dubious thing about him. They are seldom original or persuasive; they suggest, rather, a combination of half-digested gobbets of wisdom heavily seasoned with personal idiosyncrasy, or just plain whimsy. The same recipe provides most of the fare in A Smile in the Mind's Eye, a short account of Durrell's re-education in the disciplines of the Tao through the effect of two close personal relationships. One of these was with a Chines... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Francis King
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Laurence Durrell has used the word 'quincunx' to describe his plan of five novels, of which [Constance] is the third. 'Quincunx' means the arrangement of five objects in such a way that four of them are at the corners of a square or rectangle and one is in the centre; but whether Constance, one of its two predecessors (Monsieur and Livia) or one of its projected successors is to be regarded as the central work, is not clear. At all events, a prior reading of the first two volumes...
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