Doireann Macdermott Signed (1 results)
Language: English
Published by UK, 1972
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
- Manuscript
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Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Typed Signed Letter/Envelope from Irish Academic Doireann MacDermott to Artist Anthony Rossiter discussing Aldous Huxley. A letter discussing Aldous Huxley and letters in relation to his novel Pendulum. Written 1972. From a large collection of the artists letters. Anthony Rossit…er RWA MSIAD was a British landscape painter who was educated at Eton and studied painting at Chelsea Art School from 1947-51. He was a romantic visionary, a "poet" whose heaven was the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Gnarled hedgerows, tumbling stone walls, broken gates, reflections in water and ploughed fields were all his subject matter. His works also included portraits, most notably that of W.H. Auden. Anthony Rossiter began his correspondence with Huxley and Osmond while writing his autobiography, The Pendulum (Gollancz, 1966). From the ecstasy of the creative high to the agonising despair of depression, The Pendulum was the creative artist's riposte to the cult success of Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus, 1954). Where Huxley induced heightened perception by carefully controlled experiments with mescaline, Rossiter's swings came naturally and without warning. Doireann MacDermott b1923 is an Irish translator, writer, an academic in the field of Spanish philology, and a retired professor of English studies at the University of Barcelona. She pioneered the study of the language and literature of the English-speaking countries of the former Commonwealth. All in good condition with light creasing. Ref18838. Signed by Author(s).
