A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President--1960 helped to alter the st...
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Socially awkward and largely reclusive, T. H. White managed to turn his obsession with King Arthur and his knights into one of the most popular and most critically acclaimed books of his generation, T...
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Like British scholars C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Terence Hanbury White turned his concern for the events leading to World War II into the unexpected--a highly original children's book, The Swor...
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T. H. White is best known for his transformations of stories of the past. His four-volume masterpiece, The Once and Future King (1958), gives new life to the works of Sir Thomas Malory, and White also...
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Critical Essay by Erwin D. Canham
Since 1939 a great many readers, this reviewer and his family included, have been earnest, indeed passionate, devotees of T. H. White's "The Sword in t...
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Critical Essay by J. R. Cameron
The recent death of the British novelist Terence Hanbury White probably passed unnoticed among the majority of readers, yet White is the major interpreter of the Arthu...
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Critical Essay by John Mullin
[The Book of Merlyn] was intended by the author to conclude his narrative series on King Arthur, the four books eventually brought together in The Once and Future King. ...
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Critical Essay by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Book of Merlyn was written with the improvidence of an impulse. It holds much that is acute, disturbing, arresting, much that is brilliant, much that is m...
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Critical Essay by Erwin D. Canham
