# Harold Nicolson

Sir Harold George Nicolson (Teheran, 1886ko azaroaren 21a - Sissinghursteko gaztelua, Kent, 1968ko maiatzaren 1a) britainiar politikari, diplomazialari, historialari, biografo, eleberrigile eta kazetaria izan zen.
Diplomatiko baten semea izan zen eta Persian jaio zen. Hainbat herrialdetan bizi ondoren, Oxfordeko Unibertsitatean ikasi zuen eta karrera diplomatikoan sartu zen. Madrilen eta Konstantinoplan destinatuta egon zen eta 1913an Vita Sackville-Westekin ezkondu zen. Biena ezkontza irekia izan zen eta biek harreman homosexualak izan zituzten beste pertsona batzuekin. Gerra ostean Teheranera eta Berlinera bidali zuten.
1929an lanbide diplomatikoa utzi ondoren, egunkari argitaratzailea izan zen. 1935ean Komunen Ganberako kide aukeratu zuten. Laboristen Erakunde Nazionala alderdiko kide izan zen eta 1945ean Alderdi Laboristara batu zen.

## Lanak

* Paul Verlaine (Constable, 1921)
* Sweet Waters (Constable, 1921) eleberria
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Aspects of His Life, Character and Poetry (Constable, 1923)
* Lord Byron: The Last Journey (Constable, 1924)
* Swinburne (Macmillan, 1926)
* Some People (Constable, 1927)
* The Development of English Biography (The Hogarth Press, 1927) (Hogarth Lectures No. 4)
* Swinburne and Baudelaire: The Zaharoff Lecture (The Clarendon Press, 1930)
* Portrait of a Diplomatist: Being the Life of Sir Arthur Nicolson, First Lord Carnock, and a Study of the Origins of the Great War (Houghton Mifflin, 1930) online
* People and Things: Wireless Talks (Constable, 1931)
* Public Faces: A Novel (Constable, 1932) novel
* Peacemaking 1919 (Constable, 1933) online
* Curzon: The Last Phase, 1919–1925: A Study in Post-War Diplomacy (Constable, 1934)
* Dwight Morrow (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935)
* Politics on the Train (Constable, 1936)
* Helen's Tower (Constable, 1937)
* Small Talk (Constable, 1937)
* Diplomacy (Thornton Butterworth, 1939) (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge)
* Marginal Comment (January 6 – August 4, 1939) (Constable, 1939)
* Why Britain is at War (Penguin Books, 1939) (Penguin Specials)
* The Desire to Please: The Story of Hamilton Rowan and the United Irishmen (Constable, 1943)
* The Poetry of Byron: The English Association Presidential Address, August 1943 (Oxford University Press, 1943)
* Friday Mornings 1941–1944 (Constable, 1944)
* England: An Anthology (Macmillan, 1944)
* Another World Than This: An Anthology (Michael Joseph, 1945) edited with Vita Sackville-West
* The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812–1822 (Constable, 1946)
* Comments 1944–1948 (Constable, 1948) – collected articles from the Spectator
* Benjamin Constant (Constable, 1949)
* King George V (Constable, 1952)
* The Evolution of Diplomacy (Constable, 1954) – Chichele Lectures 1953
* The English Sense of Humour and other Essays (The Dropmore Press, 1946)
* Good Behaviour, being a Study of Certain Types of Civility (Constable, 1955)
* Sainte-Beuve (Constable, 1957)
* Journey to Java (London:Constable, 1957)
* The Age of Reason (1700–1789) (Constable, 1960)
* Tennyson: Aspects of his Life, Character and Poetry (Arrow, 1960) (Grey Arrow Books, no. 39)
* Monarchy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962)
* Diaries and Letters 1930–39; Diaries and Letters 1939–45; Diaries and Letters 1945–62 (Collins, 1966–68) - edited by Nigel Nicolson

## Kanpo estekak

* Datuak: Q332956
* Multimedia: Harold Nicolson / Q332956