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''Critical Essays'' (1946) is a collection of wartime pieces by George Orwell. It covers a variety of topics in English literature, and also includes some pioneering studies of popular culture. It was acclaimed by critics, and Orwell himself thought it one of his most important books. == Contents == *Charles Dickens ::First published in ''Inside the Whale and Other Essays'' (1940). *Boys' Weeklies ::First published in an abridged form in ''Horizon'', March 1940. Reprinted in ''Inside the Whale and Other Essays'' (1940). *Wells, Hitler and the World State ::Response to H. G. Wells ''Guide to the New World''. ::First published in ''Horizon'', August 1941. *The Art of Donald McGill ::First published in ''Horizon'', February 1942. *Rudyard Kipling ::Response to ''A Choice of Kipling's Verse'', edited by T. S. Eliot. ::First published in ''Horizon'', February 1942. *W. B. Yeats :: Review of V. K. Narayana Menon ''The Development of William Butler Yeats''. ::First published in ''Horizon'', January 1943. *Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dalí ::Response to ''The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí''. ::According to a note by Orwell, "'Benefit of Clergy' made a sort of phantom appearance in the ''Saturday Book'' for 1944. The book was in print when its publishers, Messrs Hutchinson, decided that this essay must be suppressed on grounds of obscenity. It was accordingly cut out of each copy, though for technical reasons it was impossible to remove its title from the table of contents." Several copies, including Orwell's own, escaped this excision. *Arthur Koestler ::Unpublished before ''Critical Essays''. *Raffles and Miss Blandish ::First published in ''Horizon'', October 1944. *In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse ::First published in ''Windmill'', no. 2, () 1945. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Critical Essays (Orwell)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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