New Resources
DVD: ‘Q – A Great Cornishman’;
This DVD was commissioned by the Trustees of a the Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Memorial Fund and was produced in 2008 with the support of the Cornwall Council’s Media Team.
The DVD includes:
(i) brief coverage of the work of the Q Fund
(ii) a film about Q’s life and contribution to Cornwall (32 minutes)
(iii) Additional Resources including interviews with Professor Charles Thomas, A.L.Rowse (in 1987 & 1996) and others who knew Q in Fowey.
(iv) Archive Resources including a very comprehensive bibliography and a list of other resources related to Q’s life.
Available from bookshops – costing £9.99.
ambridge University Press announced the reissue of some early Q publications with the following introduction.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), who often published under the pen-name of ‘Q’, was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism. A novelist and poet who was also a Professor of English, he helped to form the literary tastes of generations of literary students and scholars who came after him. The freshness, enthusiasm and intellectual insight of his work is still evident in his writings nearly a century on. Cambridge University Press is delighted to reissue some of his key texts in this set.
The complete set costs £175 while all 11 volumes (listed below) are available separately.
Volume 1: Studies in Literature; Volume 2: Poet as Citizen and Other Papers; Volume 3. Memories and Opinions; Volume 4:Studies in Literature; Volume 5: Studies in Literature; Volume 6: Adventures in Criticism; Volume 7: From a Cornish Window; Volume 8: Charles Dickens Other Victorians; Volume 9: Shakespeare’s Workmanship; Volume 10: On the Art of Writing; Volume 11: On the Art of Reading