Keith Alldritt Explained

Keith Alldritt is a contemporary British novelist, biographer and critic.

Biography

Aldritt was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He lives and works in the West Midlands, the setting for his novels. For some years he was a Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Illinois and then at the University of British Columbia, Canada.He has written extensively for radio, television and film and has contributed articles on modern and contemporary art to various magazines and newspapers in Britain, Canada and the United States.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1978.

Awards

His novel The Good Pit Man was a New Fiction Society choice.For his biography David Jones-Writer and Artist he was elected to membership of the Welsh Academi.

Books

• England Resounding - Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and the English Musical Renaissance (Robert Hale 2019)
• Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot - A Biography (Robert Hale 2015)
• David Jones:Writer and Artist (2003)
• The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting (1998)
• W.B.Yeats:The Man and the Milieu (1997)
• The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D.Roosvelt and Winston Churchill, 1941-1945 (1995)
• Churchill the Writer: His Life as a Man of Letters (1992)
• Modernism in the Second World War: The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid (1989)
• Eliot's Four Quartets: Poetry as Chamber Music
• Elgar on the Journey to Hanley: A Novel (1979)
• The Lover Next Door (1977)
• The Good Pit Man: A Novel (1976) LCCCN 765367
• The Visual Imagination of D.H. Lawrence (1971)
• The Making of George Orwell: An Essay in Literary History (1969)

References

• Voorhees, R. J. "Justice to George Orwell" in Collected Essays: Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Eds. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. Purdue University, 1970
• Workman, Gillian. Orwell Criticism, 1972
• Muller, James W. In Finest Hour: Journal of the International Churchill Society No. 77, 1992
• Cooper, John Xeros. T.S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets, Cambridge University Press, 1995
• Rae, Patricia. "Mr Charrington's Junk Shop: T.S. Eliot and Modernist Poetics in 'Nineteen Eighty Four'", Twentieth Century Literature, 22 June 1997
• Kleinzahler, August. "Blackfell's Scarlatti", London Review of Books, Vol. 21. No.2, 21 June 1999, pp. 30–31.
• Bryer, Jackson R. Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1972 Durham: Duke University Press, p. 194.
• Malcolm, Noel. "Poet of the Ever-Present Past". The Telegraph 11 May 2003
• Morley, Christopher. "Elgar and Wolverhampton Wanderers - an unlikely match", Birmingham Post Life and Leisure (Sport), 2 September 2010
• Cambridge Pre-U Syllabus. Recommended Reading Post 1960 Poetry.