Complex sentence: He met and befriended the young Lawrence Durrell in 1932, when he was living in Denmark Street; he made friends as well as enemies (Dylan Thomas, George Woodcock) throughout literary London.
Split into simpler sentences: He met and befriended the young Lawrence Durrell in 1932, when he was living in Denmark Street. He made friends as well as enemies (Dylan Thomas, George Woodcock) throughout literary London.