Philip Toynbee, Goodbye to Auden, ‘Observer'

Toynbee (1916–81), a novelist, poet, and writer of nonfiction, joined the editorial staff of the ‘Observer’ in 1950. His books include ‘The Savage Days’ (1937), ‘A School in Private’ (1941), ‘Friends Apart: A Memoir of Esmond Romilly and Jasper Ridley in the Thirties’ (1954), ‘Views from a Lake’ (1968), and ‘Towards the Holy Spirit’ (1973).