Showing posts with label Bill Hopkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Hopkins. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Works of and on Bill Hopkins

This list is by no means exhaustive. I shall be updating it shortly. Last updated 29 October 2025.


Novel

The Divine and the Decay: 1st ed. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1957; 2nd ed. London: Deverell and Birdsey, 1984 [sometimes, but not always, under the new title The Leap!]; 3rd ed. Dunce, 2024 [as The Leap]. — Reviews: Tom Hopkinson, Observer (17 November 1957), p. 18; Howard Spring, Country Life, vol. 122, no. 3,175 (21 November 1957), pp. 1,117–9; Vernon Johnson, Guardian (26 November 1957), p. 4; 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; Colin Wilson, appendix to Beyond the Outsider (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), pp. 207–18; Revilo P. Oliver, Liberty Bell, vol. 13, no. 4 (December 1985), pp. 17–19 [repr. in Counter-Currents (7 June 2011)]; Greg Johnson, Counter-Currents (31 January 2024) [repr. in Greg Johnson, Novel Takes: Essays on Literature (San Francisco, CA: Counter-Currents, 2024)]. — 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.