Talk:Anthony Burgess

message: Why delete "composer" from the opening paragraph? Burgess was, in fact, a composer his entire life. A rather good one, at that. I'm re-inserting it. Microtonal 04:16, 8 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composer 

message: It says Burgess's father died twice. In the beginning it says 1948, but later on under Education it says 1938. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.16.85 (talk) 21:00, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of Information 

message: Anthony Burgess (aka John Wilson) taught me English at Banbury Grammar School during the 1950s. Oyster24 (talk) 11:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teaching post 

message: "They later moved to a semi-detached house called "Applegarth" in Etchingham, approximately a mile from the Jacobean house where Rudyard Kipling had lived in Burwash, and one mile from the Robertsbridge home of Malcolm Muggeridge."
Who cares? If you drew a circle with a radius of one mile (or any arbitrary distance) around any random writer's house, would it be important to include the writers found within? Unless Kipling and Muggeridge are somehow relevant to Burgess, I don't see why this would be included. · rodii · 19:10, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't write it, but I suppose it demonstrates that the area is the sort of tranquil, Home Counties environment where middle class, middle aged Englishmen settle down to pen tomes. To that end, I suggest leave it in. It helps portray the location as comfortable, middle class etc. Farrtj (talk) 01:44, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm with User:Rodii - Kipling had died 25 years before Burgess moved to Etchingham,  Muggeridge died in Robertsbridge, but I don't know whern he moved there,  As worded it sounds as if they were a literary circle - except Kipling was dead, and I can't imagine Burgess and Muggeridge having a cosy chat. If the article is trying to say something about Etchingham it should say it, with a sourced WP:RS - not hope the reader can interpret something. - Arjayay (talk) 08:08, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm with Farrtj. Keep it in. Kipling and Muggeridge are both important people who lived close to Burgess. What's the harm? Span (talk) 19:38, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this important? 

message: Discussion is make of the American edition of CO not having a 21st chapter, whereas the British edition does. And the film version of CO thus not including the 21st chapter material. What is in the 21st chapter?--TGC55 (talk) 23:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The main character is very happy in middle-age and getting on with his life. It seems the American publishers did not like and refused to publish the bit that made little or no references to youth and violence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.206.49 (talk) 18:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clockwork Orange - 21st chapter? 

message: It is incorrect to list his birth name as "John Anthony Burgess Wilson." His birth name was "John Burgess Wilson," so I made the correction. The name "Anthony" came from the name he used at his Catholic Confirmation. Although a person's Confirmation name does not designate a formal name change, Burgess did consider "Anthony" as part of his "full name." The pen name "Anthony Burgess" was derived from his Confirmation name and his middle name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.81.94.72 (talk) 15:56, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Name 

message: Re: the AJP Taylor reference - in a British university, would Burgess have written anything that could be described as a term paper?
Notreallydavid (talk) 23:03, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No. In Britain it would be called an essay. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:28, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life