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The Literary Churchill

Churchill’s Novel “Savrola”, Part 1: Polestar of a Statesman’s Philosophy
18
Feb
2021
By PATRICK J.C. POWERS
Savrola voices Churchill’s fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life.
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A.L. Rowse,
Anthony Hope,
Aristotle,
Arthur Schopenhauer,
Benjamin Disraeli,
Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
Edward Gibbon,
H. Rider Haggard,
J.E.C. Welldon,
James Welldon,
Joseph Conrad,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Munich crisis,
Patrick J.C. Powers,
Plato,
Savrola,
Socrates,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 2
31
Oct
2020
By PAUL K. ALKON
Churchill’s affinity for scientific techniques, themes and writers significantly proclaims his openness toward the future—and its perils.
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
24
Oct
2020
By PAUL K. ALKON
Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.
Churchill and Shakespeare without Melodrama: a Response to Jonathan Rose
08
Sep
2020
By DAVID FORMAN
Jonathan Rose writes that the sea of Churchill's tastes was dominated by melodrama, but he misses the whale among the fish—Churchill's beloved Shakespeare.
Winston Churchill’s Unknown Canon, Part 1: Contributions to Other Works
17
Feb
2020
1
By RONALD I. COHEN
We all benefit from Hillsdale’s twenty-three volumes of The Churchill Documents, Robert Rhodes James’s Complete Speeches and the 332 Churchill articles in the Collected Essays. Vital as these contributions are, they do not capture everything Churchill wrote or said. There is far more. The task I set myself, all those years ago, was to find everything else, too. - Ronald Cohen
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Andrew Rae Duncan,
Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill,
Brendan Bracken,
Collected Essays,
Complete Speeches,
Corona Library,
David Kirkwood,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Earl of Birkenhead,
Eddie Marsh,
Hazel Lavery,
Herbert Haseltine,
Jean Hamilton,
John Lavery,
Josiah Wedgwood,
Lord Birdwood,
Lord Ismay,
Lord Lloyd,
Malakand Field Force,
Mark Sykes,
Marthe McKenna,
Paul Maze,
Phyllis Moir,
Red Clydeside,
Ronald I. Cohen,
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart,
Sir Philip Vian,
Sir Roger Keyes,
Sir Tom Bridges,
Viscount Rothermere,
Walter H. Thompson,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Churchill and H. G. Wells, the Two Futurists
23
May
2018
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Origins of a Famous Phrase
20
Apr
2018
Churchill Fiction. Father and Son: An Appreciation of “The Dream”
02
Apr
2018
Winston Churchill and the Nobel Prizes, 1946-1953
29
Jan
2018
2
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
The Swedish Academy was right in recognizing a long and brilliant literary career that had begun in 1895. Despite Churchill’s disappointment in not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, he thanked them humbly. “I hope you have not been biased in any way in your judgment of my literary qualities,” he told Ambassador Hägglöf. “But at any rate I am very proud indeed to receive an honor which is international. I have received several which are national, but this is the first time that I have received one which is international in its character.”8 At Ten Downing Street he told reporters: “I think it a very great honor to receive from the Swedish Academy of Literature this distinction gained among all the other writers of the world.”
Churchill, Lincoln, and Shakespeare
16
Dec
2016
2
The Writing of “Lord Randolph Churchill”
18
Oct
2016
Exploring the Official Biography: Churchill’s “The Scaffolding of Rhetoric”
29
Apr
2016