Article: School magazines.

ROBERT GRAVES and Kingsley Amis had their first poems printed in school magazines, and we can see why E. M. Forster was unhappy at school when we read in The Tonbridgian for November 1895 that in the previous year the school library had lent out only 15 books on art and architecture, as compared to 172 Harrison Ainsworth novels and 112 Captain Marryat naval yarns. We find that Philip Larkin wrote comic sketches somewhat in the manner of Tony Hancock soliloquies for The Coventrian. The Review: the Magazine of Hackney Downs School tells us that the twenty runs achieved by Harold Pinter, Vice-Captain of Cricket, against `Recent Departures' was the third-best score of the ...

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