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One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper Signed Edition, Kindle Edition
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The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished thecomédie humaine, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper's correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great letter-writers as Madame de Sévigné and Horace Walpole.
Though he generally shunned emotional self-exposure in correspondence as in company, his letters to the woman who became his wife reveal the surprising intensity and the raw depths of his feelings.
Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation, and one of the most famous dons of his day. While still a young man, he made his name with his bestsellerThe Last Days of Hitler, and became notorious for his acerbic assaults on other historians. In his prime, Trevor-Roper appeared to have everything: a grey Bentley, a prestigious chair in Oxford, a beautiful country house, a wife with a title, and, eventually, a title of his own. But he failed to write the 'big book' expected of him, and tainted his reputation when in old age he erroneously authenticated the forged Hitler diaries.
For an academic, Trevor-Roper's interests were extraordinarily wide, bringing him into contact with such diverse individuals as George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher, Albert Speer and Kim Philby, Katharine Hepburn and Rupert Murdoch. The tragicomedy of his tenure as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, provided an appropriate finale to a career packed with incident.
Trevor-Roper's letters to Bernard Berenson, published asLetters from Oxford in 2006, gave pleasure to a wide variety of readers. This more general selection of his correspondence has been long anticipated, and will delight anyone who values wit, erudition, and clear prose.
Though he generally shunned emotional self-exposure in correspondence as in company, his letters to the woman who became his wife reveal the surprising intensity and the raw depths of his feelings.
Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation, and one of the most famous dons of his day. While still a young man, he made his name with his bestsellerThe Last Days of Hitler, and became notorious for his acerbic assaults on other historians. In his prime, Trevor-Roper appeared to have everything: a grey Bentley, a prestigious chair in Oxford, a beautiful country house, a wife with a title, and, eventually, a title of his own. But he failed to write the 'big book' expected of him, and tainted his reputation when in old age he erroneously authenticated the forged Hitler diaries.
For an academic, Trevor-Roper's interests were extraordinarily wide, bringing him into contact with such diverse individuals as George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher, Albert Speer and Kim Philby, Katharine Hepburn and Rupert Murdoch. The tragicomedy of his tenure as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, provided an appropriate finale to a career packed with incident.
Trevor-Roper's letters to Bernard Berenson, published asLetters from Oxford in 2006, gave pleasure to a wide variety of readers. This more general selection of his correspondence has been long anticipated, and will delight anyone who values wit, erudition, and clear prose.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2014Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseAs 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.
These letters, written between Sept. 1943 and December 21, 2001, demonstrate the wide-ranging interests of TR and his expertise in many fields. Some letters offer insider views of Oxford University procedures, especially filling vacancies; discuss some of his key historical contributions such as the "court and country thesis"; tackle the Warren Report; recount his friendships with H.L.A. Hart and Isaiah Berlin; criticize what he saw as the new "introverted" Scotland; and recount his new status as a member of the House of Lords. Many prominent folks are discussed, including Kim Philby, Sir Edmund Backhouse, Toynbee, Gibbon, Burckhardt, Francis Bacon, Hume, Boswell, Erasmus and A.J.P. Taylor and A.L. Rowse. Among the most interesting letters are those to and about his wife, the daughter of Field Marshall Haig with whom he got involved while she was married to another.
But above all are his letters relating to history: what it should focus upon; how it should taught; how it should be written. His dilemma in reviewing possible Oxford colleague applicants for a prestigious historical professorship, when most had written nothing or made no contributions during their Oxford teaching careers, illustrates one reason why he was not popular at Oxford or especially while the Master of Peterhouse College at Cambridge. His standards for scholarship (for himself and others) were extremely high; his willingness to unleash his razor-sharp humorous barbs won few disciples. But this all makes for great reading and each letter (almost) is a miniature masterpiece of scholarship and/or invective.
The volume is co-edited by Richard Davenport-Hines, who edited the prior volume, and Adam Sisman, whose fine bio of TR you will lust to read after consuming these letters. A number of helpful illustrations are included, as well as invaluable footnote annotations which identify key terms and references which might mystify we Americans. To experience a man of such brilliance and wit at work, even when being malevolent, is one of life's great pleasures. Hopefully, more volumes of scintillating TR letters are forthcoming. Fortunately, these letters predate the email era; the odds that such letters written during the reign of the internet will appear in the future seem bleak. - Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2014Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThose 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.
Trevor-Roper's opinions, especially apart from historical questions, are often dubious. For example, he thought that the novel was a dead form, whereas poetry was still vital in the 20th century, which I'd say is completely backwards. He only likes a few novelists of any era, one of them being the now unreadable Walter Scott, and he recommends Stendhal as a master of style--not untrue, but only in the sui generis case of Stendhal. Read Jean Giono to see why imitating Stendhal is a grave mistake.
The unreadable Doughty wrote one of Trevor-Roper's favorite books, and his inordinate praise for Gibbon seems to me to be ancestor worship of the doubtful kind.
But Trevor-Roper was a good writer, a stylist without question, so reading his letters and diaries is rewarding for that merit alone, certainly much better than trying to read his straight historical works (excepting his book on Hitler, though why that should be compared with Gibbon, which more than one critic has done, baffles me). - Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThe academic backdrop of this historian's noted zest for professional argument is greatly enriched by his display in these few letters of a profound fluency in friendship, a genuinely humanistic scope of interest, and an estimable gift for the judicious appraisal. To read him "venturing to defend Gibbon" to his dear friend Gerald Brenan, is to marvel not merely at his gift for encompassing a great mind in very clear and verifiable terms, but at the powerful sensitivity and affection which can be projected to a grieving friend through invoking their common values as a subtle, unstated compliment. Trevor-Roper can be read here not merely for what he knows, but for what he knows of why he learned it, and how to apply learning to the nourishing of society. The book is very well edited, with all the footnotes one would need for context, without turning to another section. It must have been ridiculously difficult to keep this book so portable and yet compleat.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseA 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.
The co-editors deserve special acclaim for their useful and concise explanatory footnotes to the text, most helpful to me and, I am sure, for other common readers.
For further reading, I highly recommend the "Wartime Journals" as edited by Richard Davenport-Hines and "Boswell's Presumptuous Task" authored by Adam Sisman. - Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018Format: KindleVerified PurchaseMarvelously intelligent and funny letters from a marvelous prose stylist.
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- MercuriusReviewed in Canada on April 5, 2014
4.0 out of 5 starsA worldly historian
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseMuch to like in this further gathering of letters from the fascinating historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. The principle of selection seems a bit arbitrary, but the result displays some of his range of interests, his lively historical imagination, his wonderful prose style. The letter to Philby is worth the price of the volume in itself. Humane and curious, Trevor-Roper had a vitality and sense of possibility that rub off on the reader. Annotation well-judged. - dr peter sloterdijkReviewed in Germany on March 19, 2014
5.0 out of 5 starsBegegnung mit einem Großen
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseDie "Einhundert Briefe von Hugh Trevor-Roper" bieten Ungewöhnliches: herrliches Englisch,
große bilderreiche Prosa, subtile Urteile über Menschen und Dinge und das Maß an Bosheit,
ohne die sich intellektuelle Überlegenheit nicht vorstellen läßt. - Brian GarrettReviewed in Australia on September 20, 2022
2.0 out of 5 starsWell ....
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseNot exactly gripping. I can't help thinking that "Letters To HTR" would be of much more interest than "Letters From"! - francisReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2014
5.0 out of 5 starsA splendid read for the initiated
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseThis is a wonderful book by an exceptionally learned, gifted and opinionated historian covering a tumultuous time in the profession. How he was able to read, travel and write so much in a single lifetime is a mystery! - Yves-Marie MorissetteReviewed in Canada on October 22, 2016
4.0 out of 5 starsby a writer whose extraordinary command of the English language is a constant source of joy. I give it four stars because I enjo
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseA very entertaining book, by a writer whose extraordinary command of the English language is a constant source of joy. I give it four stars because I enjoyed even more his "Letters form Oxford to Bernard Berenson". Wow.
