Basil de Selincourt

ST made her own the friendship with Elizabeth Robins that had begun because Robins was a friend of her mother's. She was also close to playwright-producer Harley Granville-Barker and particularly to his second wife, the...

Basil de Selincourt , reviewing for the Manchester Guardian, found Auden vigorous but slapdash. His rhymes, said de Selincourt, were uncertain and his verse-forms mostly restless, impulsive, and inconclusive, like his ideas. He judged...

The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt , reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment...