Neville Cardus
Neville Cardus
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBEwas an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly self-educated, he became The Manchester Guardian's cricket correspondent in 1919 and its chief music critic in 1927, holding the two posts simultaneously until 1940. His contributions to these two distinct fields in the years before the Second World War established his reputation as one of the foremost critics of his generation...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 April 1888
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immense movement music obvious power rhythm
His immense power is lightened by a rhythm which has in it as little obvious propulsion as a movement of music by Mozart.
games cricket cant
Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.
elements genius cricket
The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
sun temper grim
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
law orderliness compromise
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
genius incarnation composition
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
water age cocktails
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
men flesh common
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
blessed rare-beauty hands
Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.
games cricket
It is far more than a game, this cricket.
may entertainment distrust
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
orderliness cosmic disturbance
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
constitution made british
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
heart games lovely
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.