Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet. The Roman Persuasion (1981) novel. The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature (1986).

Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet. He was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick and an expert on T. S. Eliot. He was born in London and studied at Wadham College, Oxford  . A Short History of English Literature (1990) revision of Ifor Evans.

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Bergonzi published a critical b iography of Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1977, and in 1981 The Roman Persuasion, a novel set in 1936-38, about a pious Catholic literary family negotiating the perilous political crises of that decade. It offers a counter-history to the mythologies of the antifascist left in the 30s. As a novel, the family councils of the Cartwrights and Tolleybeares perhaps go on a bit too long about the church’s infallible wisdom. A Victorian Wanderer, 2003.

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They are both historical novels, in one sense of the term – specific about place and date, designed to show the dynamics of a period, not simply as an imaginative exercise but as a veracious record. The Roman Persuasion presents a Catholic family in the Thirties: an old Catholic family, not grandees in the Waugh manner, but going back on one side to a 17th-century martyr. They are immensely aware of their faith, professional Catholics even.

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A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. What Persuasion Really Means in Persuasion: A Mimetic Reading of Jane Austen. Gordon Leah - 2010 - Heythrop Journal 51 (1):160-161. Matthew Taylor - 2004 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 11 (1):105-123. Evidence-Based Persuasion: An Ethical Imperative.

Bernard Bergonzi was born in London, England on April 13, 1929. He was a poet, critic, and professor. He taught English literature at Manchester University and Warwick University, where he remained until he retired in 1992. He wrote monographs on H. G. Wells, T. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Arnold, and Graham Greene.

Bernard Bergonzi (born 1929) is an English poet, academic, and literary critic. The Roman Persuasion: A novel. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1981. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick and an expert on . Bergonzi was born in London. He left school at 15, and worked as a clerk. Bernard Bergonzi (born 1929) is an English poet, academic, and literary critic.

Bernard Bergonzi (born 1929) is a British literary scholar, critic and poet. He was born in London and studied at the University of Oxford. He had an academic position in Manchester before moving to Warwick.