A young scholar's encounter with Russell Kirk.
| Publisher | Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc. |
| Publication | Modern Age |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-7457 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2007-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Appreciation | Russell Kirk |
| Person | Works | Russell Kirk |
| Person | Influence | George Orwell |
| Person | Works | George Orwell |
| Author | n/a | John Rodden |
| Related Content | Type |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Salem on Literature |
I FIRST MET RUSSELL AMOS KIRK in 1984, as a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia. He had cheerfully consented to an interview about the history of American conservatism in the 1950s and 1960s generally and about George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and its impact on "the conservative mind" of the early postwar era in particular. Kirk (1918-1994) behaved graciously, with a courtliness and generosity familiar to all those who knew the man. He invited me to lunch with him periodically during his visits to Washington, D.C., where he was regularly giving lectures at the Heritage...
[This journal article is 5395 words long]
Join eNotes
The above is a free excerpt. Get complete access to our library of journals with the: