This list is by no means exhaustive. I shall be updating it shortly. Last updated 25 October 2025.
Novel
The Divine and the
Decay: 1st ed. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1957; 2nd ed. London: Deverell
and Birdsey, 1984 [called ‘2nd impression’; sometimes, but not always, under the new title The Leap!]; 3rd ed. Dunce, 2024. — Reviews: Howard
Spring, Country Life, vol. 122, no. 3,175 (21 November 1957), pp.
1,117–9; G.
S. Fraser, New Statesman, vol. 54, no. 1,394 (30 November 1957), p. 748;
Simon
Raven, Spectator, vol. 199, no. 6,754 (6 December 1957), p. 810; Hilary
Corke, Listener, vol. 58, no. 1,498 (12 December 1957), p. 1,002; Millar
MacLure, Tamarack Review, vol. 80, no. 7 (Spring 1958), pp. 92–6; British
Book News, no. 210 (February 1958), p. 138;
Graham
Hough, Encounter, vol. 10, no. 2 (February 1958), pp. 84–7; Roy
Fuller, London Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3 (March 1958), pp. 67–9; Robert
Weaver, Queen’s Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2 (Summer 1958), pp. 183–94.
— See also: Malcolm
Bradbury and Dudley Andrew, ‘The Sugar Beet Generation: A Note in English
Intellectual History,’ Texas Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter 1960), pp.
38–47.
Essay
‘Ways without a
Precedent,’ in Declaration, ed. Tom Maschler (London: MacGibbon and Kee,
1957); repr. in Counter-Currents (19 March 2015).
‘Ecclesiastica
Hypocritica,’ Spearhead, no. 117 (May 1978).
‘Aiming for a Likeness,’
in Colin Wilson, a Celebration: Essays and Recollections, ed. Colin
Stanley (London: Cecil Woolf, 1988).
Poetry
‘Selected Poems’ [incl. ‘Xanadu,’
‘Claudian Landscape,’ ‘Heroic Head,’ ‘Soft Perceptions,’ ‘Salute to Henry Moore’
and ‘The Prince of War’], Synthesis (n.d.); repr. in Counter-Currents
(7 June 2011).
Further Reading on Bill Hopkins
Kenneth Allsop, The
Angry Decade: A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen-Fifties (London:
Peter Owen, 1958).
Humphrey Carpenter, The
Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s (London: Penguin, 2002).
Stuart Holroyd, Contraries:
A Personal Progression (London: Bodley Head, 1975).
—, His Dear Time’s
Waste: A 1950s Literary and Love Memoir (Manchester: Pronoia, 2013).
Colin Wilson, Voyage
to a Beginning: A Preliminary Autobiography (London: Cecil and Amelia
Woolf, 1969).
—, The Angry Years:
The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (London: Robson, 2007).
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