2008年3月12日 星期三

Bloomsbury, Elysian Fields

They remained, as the saying goes, friends. In fact, Strachey dedicated "Queen Victoria" to Virginia Woolf in 1921, nearly a decade after she had married Leonard Woolf. And their sporadic correspondence, now published as "Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey Letters," has been edited by - you guessed it? - Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.

Let us hope a copy of this book reaches Mrs. Woolf and Mr. Strachey in the Elysian Fields. They'll have as much fun reading it as we do, and they'll probably laugh over it more uproariously than will surviving Bloomsburians or earnest members of the cult, the Bloomsberries, on pious pilgrimage through its pages.

December 29, 1956 Books of the Times By CHARLES POORE

著名的英國文藝圈 參考
Wikipedia article "Bloomsbury Group".
因交遊以位於 倫敦區
:Bloomsbury (blūmz'bĕr'ē, -bə-rē, -brē) pronunciation得名:A residential district of north-central London, England, made famous by its association with an influential group of writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes, in the early 20th century.


James Beaumont Strachey (18871967) 為 Lytton Strachey弟弟 Wikipedia article "James Strachey".



Elysian Fields

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a heavenly place (peaceful and beautiful) where those who are favored by the gods can go when they die
Synonyms: Elysium, Valhalla, paradise

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