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1989 essay by Anthony Burgess

An Essay on Censorship is a lengthy letter, in verse, by Anthony Burgess addressed to his fellow novelist Salman Rushdie. Published in the wake of the 1989 Iranian fatwa against Rushdie and the Bradford book-burnings that followed, Burgess's letter has been compared to the Essay on Man of Alexander Pope.

References

Biswell, Andrew (25 January 2003). "Artifice and Insemination". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2017.

v t e Works by Anthony Burgess
Novels	The Long Day Wanes Time for a Tiger The Enemy in the Blanket Beds in the East The Right to an Answer The Doctor Is Sick The Worm and the Ring Devil of a State One Hand Clapping A Clockwork Orange The Wanting Seed Honey for the Bears Inside Mr Enderby The Eve of Saint Venus Nothing Like the Sun A Vision of Battlements Tremor of Intent Enderby Outside M/F Napoleon Symphony The Clockwork Testament Beard's Roman Women ABBA ABBA 1985 Man of Nazareth Earthly Powers The End of the World News Enderby's Dark Lady The Kingdom of the Wicked The Pianoplayers Any Old Iron Mozart and the Wolf Gang A Dead Man in Deptford Byrne
Short story collections	The Devil's Mode
Poetry	Moses: A Narrative Revolutionary Sonnets
Essays	An Essay on Censorship Homage to Qwert Yuiop One Man's Chorus
Critical works	Shakespeare Joysprick Ninety-Nine Novels Language Made Plain A Mouthful of Air
Operettas	Blooms of Dublin
Symphonies	Sinfoni Melayu
Autobiography	Little Wilson and Big God You've Had Your Time

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