Talk:Kingsley Amis

message: Kingsley Amis was a thoroughgoing alcoholic, and I believe this fact should be incorporated in his Wiki biography. Here is a brief rundown on that side of his life:
http://drunkard.com/issues/08_05/0805_kingsley.htm
:Absolutely not. Kingsley Amis certainly drank an awful lot, certainly by modern standards, and there is no doubt that his love of drink affected his relationship with Elizabeth Jane Howard, but I don't think you would want to go much further than that.
:Labeling someone as an alcoholic is dangerous to do without actual medical evidence that they sought help or were medically diagnosed as such. There is no such evidence. He himself pointed out the absolute necessity for staying sober when writing (to be found in his selected essays and reviews, especially the ones on Dylan Thomas).
:Such arbitrary labeling of people as alcoholics does a diservice to both those who enjoy their drink, even in large quantities, and those who have a real problem. Amis himself said, of Swinburne I think, that he made the very difficult transition from alcoholic to very heavy drinker. Amis was a person who knew all about that distinction.
:Tom
Agreed. His son Martin says in "Experience" that Kingsley was a fully functional heavy drinker. Drink did not seem to affect Kingsley's moods apart from making him more assertive in conversation. This is my first post on a discussion page...I hope I've done it correctly!
Conorechlin (talk) 20:00, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  K. Amis' alcoholism 

message: This passage is self-contradictory:
In 1968 the owners of the James Bond property, Glidrose Publications, attempted to continue the series by hiring different novelists, all writing under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". Kingsley Amis was the first to write a Robert Markham novel, Colonel Sun, but no further books were published under that name.
Either Amis was the first and last (and therefore only) "Robert Markham", as the article states, or there were various different novelists all writing under this name for Glidrose, as the article also states.  "Colonel Sun" also needs to be rendered as "Colonel Sun", as a book title. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 10:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never believed the multiple "Robert Markham" theory. My own research shows that it was only to have been Amis's own pseudonym. I believe the fanbase is, again, responsible for another baseless rumour. Glidrose Productions was the company's original name. Eventually it became Glidrose Publications in, I believe, the early 1970's. It is now called "Ian Fleming Publications" (IFP, for short). Fanthrillers (talk) 20:51, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kingsleyamis.jpg

message: The University of Leicester, which Kingsley's fictional one is said to be based on, is not one of the redbrick universities, for what it's worth. Llajwa 19:22, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the university in ''[[Lucky Jim]]'' a "redbrick" university? 

message: Is there some rationale that I'm missing for having one "Biography" plus one "Personal life" section? If nobody objects, I'm going to merge them. The article is very nice, but could stand some fattening-up, which I will do as I (hopefully) find the time to read the memoir and biographies that I just got out of the library.  Bishonen | talk 23:41, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography ''and'' personal life

message: The paragraph beginning
"Beginning in the late 1970s Amis’s work shows something of a decline from its earlier pitch"
is far fron NPOV and is quite polemical.
RJChapman (talk) 10:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment of later novels

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kingsleyamis.jpg

message: Hello,
the article states that Amis became a lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea in 1948. Whereas the article by guardian.co.uk ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1995/oct/23/fiction.kingsleyamis )demonstrates that he became a lecturer in 1949.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.44.14.4 (talk) 18:01, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction - lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea in 1948 or 1949? 

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replies: text: User:Accotink2 only made one change to this article, altering an external link. I have reverted the bot's reversion. William Avery (talk) 13:59, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: Obviously there are other problems with this article already, but I wonder if the opening quotation from Amis' biographer that he was the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the century can really be considered objective enough to be included in the opening paragraph of this article.  I mean, presumably any biographer thinks his/her subject is pretty great, but that doesn't prove too much in itself.  Might be rewritten more generally such as to say he "has been called the greatest..." by for example blah blah.  68.175.69.32 (talk) 05:57, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographer quote opener 

message: The bit here: "Amis had a somewhat complex relationship with anti-Semitism, which he sometimes expressed but also disliked and opposed.[28] He occasionally wallowed in speculations on the historically received, and commonly accepted, bigoted stereotypes attributed (and supposedly intrinsic) to Jewish character. He echoed this type of unexamined prejudice, replete with deliberate offensiveness, bile, and occasional deranged lunacy,[29] and with a provocative vitality all his own."
- It's a point of view and an overt one at that. If it's from a book it should be in quotes, if it isn't, it should either be rewritten or deleted. " deliberate offensiveness, bile, and occasional deranged lunacy" for example--that's damning--either quote it or get rid of it, thoughts? Thedaveformula (talk) 10:48, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: In the section "Life and career", Amis's first wife, Hilary Bardwell, and his second wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, are named.  The second is referred to by her family name, Howard.  The first wife is consistently referred to (there and elsewhere) by her give name, Hilary--perhaps a bit familiarly.
Does it or should it imply a subtle distinction?  If so, what?  Is there some Wikipedia policy (concerning first wives, or households of death) to support this discrepency? 
(Christopher Karl Johansen)—Xojo  (talk)  20:32, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query: Naming Consistency? 

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message: "This sections starts "Briefly joined the Communist Party... left in 1956" - that's 15 years. I should live to treat 15 years as "brief".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robin J Thomson (talk • contribs) 22:53, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome. Robin J Thomson (talk) 01:58, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political Views 

message: The article says that he was knighted in 1990.  When did he receive the CBE? 67.231.66.125 (talk) 16:48, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sir Kingsley Amis CBE"