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Title: Evelyn Waugh and the Forms of His Time (Contexts and Literature, Vol 1) by Robert Murray Davis ISBN: 0-8132-0677-4 Publisher: Catholic University of America Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: For Waugh fans
Comment: It's well written with many illuminating insights but is a scholarly work aimed, I suppose, at people who have read, or thought they had read, all of Waugh. Actually,for those who wept that there were no more Waughs to conquer,he uncovers some obscure writings and some differences between editions that are more radical and more interesting than such textual variants usually are.
Only the first section and the bits about the early novels live up to the promise of the title by relating Waugh to contemporary writers of his time. I had always been puzzled by the way that in "Decline and Fall" a taut, ironic, detached, witty style emerged suddenly in 1928 from the unreadable tomes of the early century when humor was arch and ponderous, description long-winded, and plots melodramatic. Genius is the primary explanation of course but Davis puts it into context and I shall be scouring the used book areas for some of the avatars and exemplars he mentions.
Later on he loses track of this theme of relating Waugh to his contemporaries. Just every now and then he reminds us that that is what he is supposed to be doing. There is a discussion of "Brideshead Revisited" in relation to "All the King's Men." Warren did not read Waugh and Waugh did not read Warren. At the outset Davis says "any thread of external evidence linking them is rather tenuous" Well - yes.