One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper

Name: One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper
ISBN: 9780198703112

3/5

Først udgivet: 2013
Udgivere: Oxford University Press
Emner: Historians·Great britain·Historians·Correspondence

As I wrote in a review of a previous volume of TR letters: "The late Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003;, later Baron Dacre of Glanton) was everything you want in an Oxford Don: deeply learned; possessed of a wicked sense of humor; extremely clever (in the British sense of the term); sporting a period of service in the Secret Intelligence Service during the war (out of which grew his "The Last Days of Hitler); but above all one of the finest letter writers one is likely ever to encounter (on a par with Justice Holmes and Isaiah Berlin)." This new volume of letters, written not just to a single correspondent as were the prior collection, reaffirms this judgment.

Those who knew Trevor-Roper considered him a wonderful chap, but his judgemental temper is more than a little off-putting.He reminds me of Kingsley Amis in that respect: someone whom his friends loved, but who was so hypercritical of everyone else that you can't imagine him as being an ideal human being.

A well-chosen selection of the clear, vibrant, sometimes waspish letters directed to various friends, both young and old, produced from the pen of an important English scholar, Hugh Trevor-Roper.A great and interesting mind is at work here, even when ordinary topics, such as personal travel or university politics, are addressed.

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