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Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan

Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, published immediately post-war in 1945, elegises landscape and lifestyle. The outsider Charles Ryder is drawn towards the bohemian Sebastian Flyte and his house and family. Using flashback, post-war austerity throws the vanished colour of Brideshead into relief. Revisiting Brideshead on active service, Flyte sees that its farm ‘had been marked forContinue reading “Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan”