Magnanimous Cuckolds
Jack Matthews, 10 November 1988
The Lyre of Orpheus
by Robertson Davies.
Viking, 472 pp., £11.95, September 1988,9780670824168 Show More
by Robertson Davies.
Viking, 472 pp., £11.95, September 1988,
“... bonds intricately woven into the text not simply of The Lyre of Orpheus but of the entire trilogy. Simon Darcourt’s biography of Francis Cornish, for example, was begun early in The Rebel Angels and is completed at approximately the same time as the opera. Cornish was Arthur’s uncle and eponym of the Foundation – a man who had gathered great wealth and ... ”