Bright writing in bleak times: Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine

The memorial plaque at Lansdowne Terrace in London, where Horizon was based
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To many, the launch of a literary magazine at the start of the Second World War seemed particularly misguided – yet in its ten-year lifetime Cyril Connolly’s Horizon was to become one of Britain’s most admired periodicals.

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