Harold Acton
Harold Acton
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBEwas a British writer, scholar, and dilettante. Acton was born at Villa La Pietra, near Florence, Italy. His father was a successful art collector and dealer, and his prominent Anglo-Italian family included the historian Lord Acton, and, more distantly, Sir John Acton, Commodore and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 July 1904
two biographies tests
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
exercise jumping people
Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.
regret real writing
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.