John Bayley (writer)
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| John Bayley | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Oliver Bayley 27 March 1925 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Lanzarote, Canary Islands |
| Occupation | writer |
| Spouse(s) | Iris Murdoch Audi Villiers |
John Oliver Bayley, CBE, FBA, FRSL (27 March 1925 – 12 January 2015) was a British literary critic and writer. He was Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
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Biography
Bayley was born in Lahore, British India, and educated at Eton, where he studied under G. W. Lyttelton, who also taught Aldous Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, George Orwell and Cyril Connolly. After leaving Eton, he went on to take a degree at New College, Oxford.[1] From 1974 to 1992, Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford. He was also a novelist and wrote literary criticism for several newspapers. He edited Henry James' The Wings of the Dove and a two-volume selection of James' short stories.
From 1956 until her death in 1999, he was married to the writer Dame Iris Murdoch. He thought that sex was "inescapably ridiculous." Nevertheless, his wife had multiple affairs with both men and women, which he occasionally witnessed for himself.[2] In the mid-1990s Murdoch fell ill with Alzheimer's disease, diagnosed in 1997. Bayley then wrote the book Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1998), which was made into the 2001 film Iris by Richard Eyre. In this film, Bayley was portrayed in his early years by Hugh Bonneville, and in his later years by Jim Broadbent. After Murdoch's death Bayley married Audi Villers, a family friend.[3] He was appointed CBE in 1999.[4]
John Bayley died on 12 January 2015.[3]
Portrayal in media
Jim Broadbent won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as John Bayley in the 2001 film Iris.
Bibliography
Novels
- In Another Country (1986)
- Alice (1994)
- The Queer Captain (1995)
- George's Lair (1996)
- The Red Hat (1997)
Other works
- The Romantic Survival (1953)
- The Characters of Love: A Study in the Literature of Personality (1960)
- Keats and Reality (1969)
- Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary (1971)
- The Uses of Division (1976)
- An Essay on Hardy (1978)
- Shakespeare and Tragedy (1981)
- Selected Essays (1984)
- The Order of Battle at Trafalgar (1987)
- The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen (1988)
- Tolstoy and the Novel (1988)
- Housman's Poems (1992)
- Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1998)
- Elegy for Iris: A Memoir (1999)
- Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories (1999)
- Widower's House (2001)[5]
- Hand Luggage: A Personal Anthology (2001)
- The Power of Delight (2005)
References
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- ↑ Andreas Dorschel, 'Kuschelecke Liebe. 'Das Haus des Witwers': John Bayley erinnert sich kaum an Iris', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 115 (21 May 2002), p. 20.
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- 1925 births
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- Alumni of New College, Oxford
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- Fellows of St Catherine's College, Oxford
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- People educated at Eton College
- Writers from Lahore
- English male novelists
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