Xu Zhimo had a great time talking with these British cultural elites.

He has talent and demeanor, highly praised foreign ideas and culture, and has no gap in his thoughts and ideas with these cultural elites from Cambridge University.

He also talked about Lin Zixuan's past visit to Cambridge University and recited the song "Goodbye, Cambridge" in English.

The description and praise of Cambridge in the poem are undoubtedly in line with the appetite of these people. Their preference for Lin Zixuan has increased significantly, and they feel that Lin Zixuan is spiritually connected with them.

Elliot asked Xu Zhimo to tell Lin Zixuan, hoping to publish this beautiful poem.

In fact, he is starting a quarterly literary review journal called Standard, which is ready to be released in October.

The poem "Wilderness" will be published in the first issue of "Standard". He hopes that Lin Zixuan's poem "Goodbye, Cambridge" can also be published in "Standard".

Xu Zhimo agreed to send a telegram to Lin Zixuan and obtain Lin Zixuan's permission.

The magazine "Standard" was published from 1922 to 1939. It was Eliot's main tool for cultural criticism, and it was committed to the revival of classical European Christian culture.

The pose of "Standard" is a calm and transcendent, which only adheres to Arnold's free game of criticism and intelligence, and is a relatively high-end and professional literary magazine.

Writers such as Woolf, Lawrence, Yeats, Aldos Huxley, Foster, and Winnham Lewis have been published in the Standard.

It also gives Proust, Valery, Ckoto and other European writers the chance to make their first appearance in English.

Although "Standard" is a small magazine with a circulation of no more than 800 copies, it has had a great impact on the British literary community.

After the party was over, Xu Zhimo left, and he was still immersed in an excited state.

Just now, he had an exchange with a group of the top people in the British cultural circle, gained their recognition, and received the next invitation, which was an honor.

For this circle, they are extremely harsh in joining newcomers.

After the first invitation, if they think the newcomer is not talented enough, can't keep up with their thinking, or is not interesting enough, without that kind of genius idea, there will be no second invitation.

Xu Zhimo knew that he had succeeded.

As time went by, he gradually calmed down and thought of Lin Zixuan, who was far away in China. Although Lin Zixuan did not join this circle, he was sought after by the elites in this circle.

And he is still complacent about finally joining this circle, this is the gap.

Maybe I shouldn't stay in the UK, but should go back to China.

The country is in the outbreak of new literature. I can bring this British circle culture to China, form a literary circle composed of top Chinese intellectuals, communicate with each other, and use literature to influence the world.

Thinking of this, a thought gradually took shape in Xu Zhimo's mind.

Later, the "New Moon Society", which had a huge influence on new literature, sprouted like this. This name comes from Tagore's "New Moon Collection", "its delicate twists and turns suggest that it embraces the perfection of the future."

Lin Zixuan was very surprised when he received a telegram from Xu Zhimo. The telegram was not much, but it was enough for him to understand the whole story. His collection of poems was sought after in the British literary world.

His first thought was, should I find a British classic to plagiarize it?

Well, this is the natural reaction of the time traveler. He actually doesn't know much about British literature, except for "Harry Potter".

Lin Zixuan sent back a telegram, allowing Elliot to publish his poems, and expressed his gratitude to Elliot.

He originally thought that the matter would end like this, but unexpectedly, he received a letter from the UK more than two months later, and the writer was Virginia Woolf.

Woolf was born in 1882. He is an English female writer, literary critic and literary theorist, and a representative figure of stream of consciousness literature. He is known as the pioneer of modernism and feminism in the 20th century.

Moreover, she suffers from severe mental illness.

She started writing since 1907. In 1917, the Woolf and his wife bought a second-hand printing machine and established Hogarth Press in the basement of their home.

This small workshop-style publisher is very famous. The publisher later published works of writers including Elliot, Katherine Mansfield, and Freud, and published all works of Woolf.

Woolf is also a feminist, working hard for the voting rights of British women.

She criticized the women in "Jane Eyre" for "always being tutors and always falling into love", and Charlotte Bronte did not have the strength and broad vision to shape characters.

She emphasizes a unique sense of women, promotes women's unique values, and requires women to "be themselves".

It can be said that she is a maverick person.

Woolf wrote to Lin Zixuan because after reading Lin Zixuan's "Gone with the Wind", she believed that Scarlett's image is more feminine awakening than Jane Eyre.

However, she also bluntly criticized the story-telling method of "Gone with the Wind" for being too bad. It is not bad from a popular literature perspective, but it cannot be a real work of art.

This is actually what the British think of Americans.

The British always feel that the founding of the United States was too short, without literary precipitation, too rude and impetuous, while the Americans say that the British were too conservative and old-fashioned, without the concept of openness and freedom.

Woolf is very curious about China, and she is even more curious about Chinese writers who can write "Gone with the Wind".

In addition, Lin Zixuan has some reputation in her circle, so she wrote to Lin Zixuan to discuss many topics such as literary writing and female liberation.

Many topics are very honest and sharp, such as the need for women in bed.

It can be seen that this British woman has different thinking, or this is the way of thinking of a genius.

I've become a friend of women.

Lin Zixuan was a little confused. He was not a genius and did not understand the ideas of genius very much. However, as a time traveler, his concept of women is more open to the British than that of this era.

He was not embarrassed when discussing gender issues.

Besides, you can’t let a British woman compete, who is afraid of whom!

He wrote a reply, even predicting that the British female prime minister would appear in the near future, referring to Mrs. Thatcher.

At this time, British women were still working hard for the right to vote. In 1918, women over 30 in the UK were granted the right to vote, and it was not until 1928 that British women finally obtained the same right to vote as men.

Woolf was shocked and delighted by the future described by Lin Zixuan. He felt that this man's thoughts were more open and long-term than those of this era. He was a truly visionary scholar.

As a result, the two of them kept having a constant exchange of letters and discussed topics comprehensively and extensively.

The content discussed in their letters was spread by Woolf in the Bloomsbury Group circle, and Lin Zixuan's name was gradually recognized by the elites in the British cultural circle.
Chapter completed!