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.
telling-the-truth should cricket-funny
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
sports order umpires
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
greek quality world
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
orderliness cosmic disturbance
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
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.