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Hugh Kingsmill Lunn (21 November 1889 – 15 May 1949), who dropped his last name for professional purposes, was a versatile British writer and journalist. Writers Arnold Lunn and Brian Lunn were his brothers. ==Life== Hugh Kingsmill Lunn was born in London and educated at Harrow School and the University of Oxford. After graduating he worked for a brief period for Frank Harris, who edited the publication ''Hearth and Home'' in 1911/2, alongside Enid Bagnold; Kingsmill later wrote a debunking biography of Harris, after the spell had worn off. He began fighting in the British Army in World War I in 1916, and was captured in France the next year. After the war, he began to write, initially both science fiction and crime fiction. In the 1930s he was a contributor to the ''English Review''; later he wrote a good deal of non-fiction for this periodical's successor, the ''English Review Magazine''. His large output includes criticism, essays and biographies, parodies and humour, as well as novels, and edited a number of anthologies. He is remembered for saying 'friends are God's apology for relations', with a notable flavour of Ambrose Bierce. The dictum was subsequently used by Richard Ingrams for the title of his memoir of Kingsmill's friendships with Hesketh Pearson and Malcolm Muggeridge,〔Richard Ingrams, ''God's Apology: A chronicle of three friends'', Andre Deutsch, London 1977〕 two intimate friends whom he influenced greatly. Muggeridge drew a darker attitude from Kingsmill's sardonic wit. Kingsmill's parody of A. E. Housman's poetry has been recognized as definitive:
Housman himself said of this parody: "It's the best I have seen, and indeed, the only good one."〔James Dickey, ''Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry'', University of South Carolina Press, 2004, p. 58〕〔Cyril Alington, ''Poets at Play''〕 ''Dawnist'' was Kingsmill's word for those infected with unrealistic or utopian idealism — the enemy as far as he was concerned. 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「Hugh Kingsmill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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