Stuart Holroyd bibliography

This bibliography is far from complete. I believe that it does contain all of the books that Stuart Holroyd has written, but he wrote many more articles than are listed here. Please email me at antoni.dillerREMOVE@cantabREMOVE.net with any information that you may have about any of these. Elsewhere I have provided a brief introduction to Stuart Holroyd's life and ideas.

  • "While the Iron's Hot", London Life, January 1952, pp. 49–50 (a 450-word short story).
  • "'The Marvellous Boy'", The Poetry Review, vol. XLIV.1 (January–March 1953), pp. 277–281.
  • "The Meaning of Sentiment", The Stage, Thursday, 19 February 1953, p. 11.
  • "Future of Poetic Drama", The Stage, Thursday, 19 March 1953, p. 11.
  • "A Second Gloriana", The Poetry Review, vol. XLIV.2 (April–June 1953), pp. 315–318.
  • "Is Shaw an Immortal?", The Stage, Thursday, 23 April 1953, p. 11.
  • "New Theatres for Old", The Stage, Thursday, 28 May 1953, p. 13.
  • "Necessity of Illusion", The Stage, Thursday, 6 August 1953, p. 10.
  • "A Question of Character", The Stage, Thursday, 20 August 1953, p. 13.
  • "Age of the Major Minor", The Stage, Thursday, 3 September 1953, p. 13.
  • "'Binnet's Vision'", The Poetry Review, vol. XLIV.4 (October–December 1953), pp. 441–444.
  • "Quest for Originality", The Stage, Thursday, 31 December 1953, p. 35.
  • "The Celtic Genius in Modern Poetry", The Poetry Review, vol. XLV.1 (January–March 1954), pp. 21–26.
  • "Problem for Playwrights", The Stage, Thursday, 18 February 1954, p. 13.
  • "'Under Milk Wood' Yes and No: Part II: A Great Humanist", The Poetry Review, vol. XLV.3 (July–September 1954), pp. 165–167.
  • "The Age Dictates the Form", The Stage, Thursday, 23 September 1954, p. 11.
  • "The Poet in the Theatre", The Poetry Review, vol. XLV.4 (October–December 1954), pp. 221–213.
  • "The Poet, the Saint and the Modern World: Part I", The Poetry Review, vol. XLVI.3 (July–September 1955), pp. 149–153.
  • "The Poet, the Saint and the Modern World: Part II", The Poetry Review, vol. XLVI.4 (October–December 1955), pp. 223–227.
  • "Histories and Anthologies", The Poetry Review, vol. XLVII.1 (January–March 1956), pp. 43–44.
  • "Modern Poetry and Metaphysics", The Poetry Review, vol. XLVII.2 (April–June 1956), pp. 94–97.
Stuart Holroyd: Emergence from Chaos
  • Emergence from Chaos, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1957.
  • "A Sense of Crisis", pp. 179–202, in Tom Maschler (ed.), Declaration, London, MacGibbon & Kee, October 1957.
  • The Tenth Chance, unpublished manuscript of a play, 1958.
  • "A Writer's Prospect", The London Magazine, vol. 6.1 (January 1959), pp. 51–59.
  • "Revolt and Commitment: Thoughts at Twenty-five", Encounter, vol. XII.4, (April 1959), pp. 23–27. This is chapter III of part one of Flight and Pursuit with a few minor changes.
  • "Ambassador Extraordinary: The Ubiquity of Bernard Shaw", The Times Literary Supplemant, issue 2997 (7 August 1959), p. 464.
Stuart Holroyd: Flight and Pursuit
  • Flight and Pursuit: A Venture into Autobiography, London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1959.
  • The Prophet, unpublished manuscript of a play, 1959.
  • "A Vision of the Past", a review of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man, John O'London's, vol. 1.7 (19 November 1959), p. 211.
  • "All aboard the gravy train?", John O'London's, vol. 2.17 (28 January 1960), pp. 83 and 88.
  • "In the Musée Rodin Paris: Notes from a Journal", 3 Arts Quarerly, no. 1 (Spring 1960), pp. 4–6.
  • "Choosing to be chosen", John O'London's, vol. 2.23 (10 March 1960), p. 282.
  • "War and aftermath", John O'London's, vol. 3.61 (1 December 1960), pp. 694–695.
  • "The strategy of salvation", John O'London's, vol. 3.63 (15 December 1960), p. 764.
  • "Exemplars", John O'London's, vol. 4.69 (26 January 1961), p. 82.
  • "Great writers of the past—9: Henry James", John O'London's, vol. 5.97 (10 August 1961), pp. 171–173.
  • Evil be my Good, unpublished manuscript of a novel, 1960–1961.
  • Two Blind Mice, unpublished manuscript of a television play, mid-1960s.
  • The Journal of a Thinking Reed, unpublished manuscript of Stuart Holroyd's diary, which covers the period from 1956–1961, 1968.
  • The English Imagination, London, Longmans, 1969.
Stuart Holroyd: Contraries
  • Contraries: A Personal Progression, London, The Bodley Head, 1975.
  • "The May Lectures: An Overview", appendix II, pp. 181–219, in Rick J. Carlson (ed.), The Frontiers of Science and Medicine, London, Wildwood House, 1975.
  • Magic, Words, and Numbers, London, Aldus Books, 1976.
  • Minds Without Boundaries, London, Aldus Books, 1976.
  • Psychic Voyages, London, Aldus Book, 1976.
  • Dream Worlds, London, Aldus Books, 1976.
  • "Curiouser and curiouser", Books and Bookmen, vol. 22.10 (July 1977), pp. 56–57.
  • Psi and the Consciousness Explosion, London, The Bodley Head, 1977.
  • Prelude to the Landing on Planet Earth, London, W. H. Allen, 1977.
  • Mysteries of Magic (with Neil Powell), London, Aldus Books, 1978. This book contains two texts, namely Stuart Holoryd's Magic, Words, and Numbers (1976) and Neil Powell's Alchemy: The Ancient Science (1976), both published by Aldus Books.
  • Mysteries of the Inner Self, London, Aldus Books, 1978. This book combines two texts, namely Psychic Voyages (1976) and Dream Worlds (1976), both published by Aldus Books.
  • Mysteries of the Mind (with Colin Wilson), London, Aldus Books, 1978. This book combines two texts, namely Colin Wilson's Mysterious Powers (1975) and Stuart Holoryd's Minds Without Boundaries (1976), both published by Aldus Books.
  • Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth, London, Corgi, 1979. This is a paperback edition of Prelude to the Landing on Planet Earth with a new introduction by Colin Wilson.
  • Mysteries of Life, London, Aldus Books, 1979.
  • Mysteries of the Gods, London, Aldus Books, 1979.
  • Mysteries of the Past (with David Lambert), London, Aldus Books, 1979.
  • Alien Intelligence, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1979.
  • The Complete Book of Sexual Love (with Susan Holroyd), London, Aldus Books, 1980.
  • The Quest of the Quiet Mind: The Philosophy of Krishnamurti, Wellingborough, Aquarian Press, 1980.
  • "Demons", pp. 50–51; "Devil", p. 51; "Ritual Magic", pp. 61–64; "Voodoo", p. 64; "Card Prediction", p. 104; "I Ching", pp. 107–108; "Numerology", p. 108; "Palmistry", pp. 108–109; "Prediction", pp. 111–112; "Scrying", p. 112; "Out-of-the-Body Experiences", pp. 142–143; in Colin Wilson and John Grant (eds.), The Directory of Possibilities, Exeter, Webb & Bower, 1981.
  • Alien Intelligence, London, Abacus, 1981. This is a paperback edition of Alien Intelligence (1979).
  • "Angry Young Mania and Beyond", pp. 38–46, in Colin Stanley (ed.), Colin Wilson, a Celebration: Essays and Recollections, London, Cecil Woolf, 1988.
  • The Arkana Dictionary of New Perspectives, London, Arkana, 1989.
  • Krishnamurti, the Man, the Mystery and the Message, Shaftesbury, Element, 1991. This is a reprint of The Quest of the Quiet Mind (1980) with a new appendix, "Bohm's Wholeness and the Implicate Order".
  • The Elements of Gnosticism, Shaftesbury, Element, 1994.
  • His Dear Time's Waste: A 1950s Literary and Love Memoir, Manchester, Pronoia, 23 September 2013. In the UK, you can buy it from Amazon.
  • Late Life Poems of Love and Loss, Nottingham, Paupers' Press, 2020. In the UK, you can buy it from Paupers' Press directly.
  • "Angry Young Mania and Beyond", in Colin Stanley (ed.), The Sage of Tetherdown, Nottingham, Paupers' Press, 2020, pp. 18–31; this is a reprint of an article that first appeared in Colin Wilson, a Celebration: Essays and Recollections (1988); see above for details.
  • "Ah, Youth!", in Colin Stanley (ed.), The Sage of Tetherdown, Nottingham, Paupers' Press, 2020, p. 32; this poem first appeared in Late Life Poems of Love and Loss (2020), p. 68; see above for details.

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