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Instead of a Critic brings together pieces written over twenty years or so in search of whatever links them. The topics range from Anglo-German cultural relations and the refugee flight from Nazi Europe to myth, pictorial art and the ‘Two Cultures’ question. It touches on performance, whether in cinema, dance, ‘straight’ theatre or the American Musical. Above all, it expresses an enthusiasm for literature and what literature can do.

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CONTENTS

Introduction                        
Aldous Huxley: Between Art and Science        
Rupert Brooke                      
Bloomsbury                      
Rosamond Lehmann                 
Katherine Mansfield and Germany           
Kafka: The Significance of Clothes          
Franziska zu Reventlow                  
Rilke and Cézanne                  
On Translating Poetry                  
Three Poems by Hofmannsthal              
Hofmannsthals in Exile                  
Egon Wellesz                      
The Gender of Mr W. S.                  
Nancy Cunard Sees Josephine Baker

Hedy Lamarr                    
Louise Brooks                    
Wedekind in English                
Sondheim at 90                    
Mitford Connections                
Myth: Its Manufacture and Recovery        
Blood for the Ghosts               
Newton and Supermac               
The Two Cultures                   

Philip Ward is a writer, translator and (occasional) composer. He worked for many years in the House of Commons Library. A member of the Society of Authors and the Biographers’ Club, he lives in Cambridge, UK, where he is a Senior Member of Wolfson College.