# Desmond MacCarthy - criticism / angleško *

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Sir (Charles Otto) Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952) je bil angleški literarni kritik.
MacCarthy se je rodil v Plymouthu v Devonu in se izobraževal na Eton College in Trinity College v Cambridgeu. V Cambridgeu je spoznal Lyttona Stracheyja, Bertranda Russella in G. E. Mooreja in čeprav so pogosto mislili, da je član skupine Bloomsbury, je imel v resnici širši krog prijateljev, vključno z Loganom Pearsallom Smithom. Leta 1903 je postal novinar z zmernim uspehom, med prvo svetovno vojno pa je nekaj časa preživel v pomorski obveščevalni službi. Leta 1917 se je pridružil New Statesmanu kot dramski kritik in leta 1920 postal literarni urednik. Pisal je tedensko kolumno pod psevdonimom "The Kindable Hawk". V tem času je v časopis zaposlil Cyrila Connollyja. Do leta 1928 je izgubil zanimanje za New Statesman in postal prvi urednik Life and Letters. Druge periodične publikacije, s katerimi je bil povezan, so bile New Quarterly in Eye Witness. MacCarthy je postal literarni kritik za Sunday Times in objavljenih je bilo več zvezkov njegovih zbranih kritik. Bil je avtor kratke zgodbe o duhovih "Pargiton in Harby", ki je bila ponatisnjena v četrti Fontanini knjigi velikih zgodb o duhovih.
MacCarthy se je poročil z Mollie, hčerko Francisa Warreja Warre-Cornisha. Sama po sebi je bila zelo spoštovana literarna osebnost. Njena sestra Cecilia se je poročila z Williamom Wordsworthom Fisherjem. MacCarthyjeva hči Rachel se je poročila z lordom Davidom Cecilom; njun sin je igralec Jonathan Cecil. Pokopan
je v župniji Ascension Burial Ground v Cambridgeu.

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Bibliografski podatki
Naslov Criticism
Essay index reprint series
Avtor Desmond MacCarthy
Izdaja ponatisnjena
Založnik Books for Libraries Press, 1932
ISBN 0836913604, 9780836913606
Dolžina 311 strani

Poor Desmond MacCarthy—so gifted, so charming, so full of promise—never quite came off. To be considered promising when young is at best a mixed blessing. Edith Wharton claimed that, as a young woman of her day, one of her greatest benefits was in never having been considered promising at all: it gave her time to develop in her own way and outside the pressure of expectation. Desmond MacCarthy never lived outside that pressure, and applied a good bit of it on himself. His aim, the assumption others made about him, was that he would one day create some masterpiece of literature—perhaps a richly complex novel or a key work of imperishable criticism—that would both make his mark and redeem his promise. He never did it; never, in fact, even came close.

Desmond MacCarthy stands in what is by now almost a tradition in England of literary flops. Just before him there was J. C. Squire, his predecessor as literary...