“gave me my love of Latin and thereby enabled me to write English”
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Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika…
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culture · English writer and caricaturist (1872–1956) · caricaturist · poet · novelist · essayist · watercolorist · painter · literary critic · illustrator · journalist · comedian · also Max Beerbohm, Sir Beerbohm, Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, Gerd Beerbohm, Beerbohm
Born 24 August 1872 · Died 20 May 1956 · Q472071
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The Atlantic: Sir Max Beerbohm
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The Atlantic: Max Beerbohm: A Lesson in Manners
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2019· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Max Beerbohm and the law of levity
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2017· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Max Beerbohm’s humanity
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2015· 1 entry
The Australian Financial Review: A Max Beerbohm collection captures his blessed contrariness
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2002· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: MAX BEERBOHM: A Kind of Life
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1956· 4 entries
Died 1956-05-20.
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“Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.”
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“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”
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“All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”
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1924· 1 entry
“A Cursory Conspectus of G.B.S”
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1913· 1 entry
As "the greatest of English comic artists", by Bernard Berenson as "the English Goya", and by Edmund Wilson as "the greatest
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1911· 1 entry
Of the king's parents, about whom he had written a satiric verse, "Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain"
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1910· 1 entry
Married and moved to Rapallo in Italy, partly as an escape from the social demands and the expense of living in London
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1904· 1 entry
Beerbohm met the American actress Florence Kahn
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1899· 1 entry
“(1895) from The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896)[1] I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. More, “Going Back to School”
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1898· 1 entry
Followed Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review, on whose staff he remained until 1910
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1896· 1 entry
“The whole man must be melted down in a crucible and then, from the solution, fashioned anew. Nothing will be lost but no particle will be as it was before.”
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1895· 1 entry
Beerbohm went to the United States for several months as secretary to his half-brother Herbert Beerbohm Tree's theatrical company
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1894· 1 entry
His friend Aubrey Beardsley being art editor at the time
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1893· 2 entries
His essay "The Incomparable Beauty of Modern Dress" was published in the Oxford journal The Spirit Lamp by its editor, Lord Alfred Douglas
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Met William Rothenstein, who introduced him to Aubrey Beardsley and other members of the literary and artistic circle connected with The Bodley Head
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1892· 2 entries
The Strand Magazine published thirty-six of his drawings of 'Club Types'
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“a great, an almost mortal blow to my modesty”
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1890· 1 entry
Studied at Merton College (1890).
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1885· 1 entry
Studied at Charterhouse School (1885).
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1872· 1 entry
Born 1872-08-24.
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