They Lived in Squares, Painted in Circles and Loved in Triangles: The Bloomsbury Group, Part 1

About this course:

The title of this course, attributed to the inimitable wit and satirist Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), is a terse, spot-on description of one of the foremost literary-artistic groups/salons/gatherings in western literature and art. In this course, we read Amy Licence’s Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles, which introduces us to the brave, passionate and innovative lives and loves of these remarkable writers, artists and intellectuals (even T. S. Eliot, who popped in occasionally). We also read works by two of the group’s major literary luminaries, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and E. M. Forster (1879-1970). Their works include early short stories as well as their masterpiece novels, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Forster’s A Passage to India (1924).