Xu Zhimo had a great conversation with these British cultural elites.

He himself has talent and grace, and greatly admires foreign ideas and cultures, and there is no ideological gap between him and these cultural elites from Cambridge University.

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

The description and praise of Cambridge in the poem are undoubtedly very much in line with the appetite of these people, and their favorability of Lin Zixuan has greatly increased, and they feel that Lin Zixuan and them are spiritually connected.

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

In fact, he is starting a quarterly literary criticism called The Standard, which is set to be released in October.

The poem "Wasteland" will be published in the inaugural issue of "Standard", and he hopes that Lin Zixuan's "Goodbye, Kangqiao" can also be published in "Standard" at the same time.

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

The Standard, which ran from 1922 to 1939, was Eliot's main tool for cultural criticism, and it was dedicated to the revival of classical European Christian culture.

The Standard's posture is one of calm detachment, a free play of Arnold's critical wit, a relatively high-end and professional literary magazine.

Writers such as Woolf, Lawrence, Yeats, Aldous Huxley, Forster, and Winham Lewis have published in the Standard.

It also gave Proust, Valéry, Quecoteau, and other European writers the opportunity to appear in English for the first time.

Although The Standard was a small magazine with a circulation of no more than 800 copies, it had a great impact on the English literary world.

At the end of the party, Xu Zhimo left, still immersed in excitement.

He had just spoken to some of the best in the British cultural scene, received their recognition, and received an invitation for the next time, which is an honour.

For this circle, they are extremely demanding on the entry of newcomers.

After the first invitation, if they think that the new person is not talented enough to keep up with their thinking, or not interesting enough to have that kind of genius idea, there will be no second invitation.

Xu Zhimo knew that he had succeeded.

As time passed, 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's still complacent about finally joining this circle, that's the gap.

Maybe I shouldn't stay in the UK and go back home.

China is in the midst of an explosion of new literature, and I can bring this kind of circle culture from the UK to China, and form a literary circle composed of top Chinese intellectuals to communicate with each other and use literature to influence the world.

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

Later, the "Crescent Society", which had a great influence on new literature, sprouted in this way, the name comes from Tagore's "Crescent Moon", "its delicate bend clearly hints at the consummation of the future".

Lin Zixuan was very surprised to receive Xu Zhimo's telegram, the content of the telegram was not much, but it was enough for him to understand the beginning and end of the matter, and his poetry collection was sought after in the English literary circle.

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

Well, this is the natural reaction of the time-traveler, who actually doesn't know much about English literature, except for Harry Potter.

Lin Zixuan sent back a telegram allowing Eliot to publish his poems and expressing his gratitude to Eliot.

He originally thought that this was the end of the matter, but what he didn't expect was that more than two months later, he received a letter from England, written by Virginia Woolf.

Born in 1882, Woolf is a British female writer, literary critic and literary theorist, a representative of stream-of-consciousness literature, and is known as the pioneer of modernism and feminism in the 20th century.

Moreover, she also suffers from severe mental illness.

She began writing in 1907, and in 1917 the Woolfs bought a second-hand printing press and established the Hogarth Press in the basement of their home.

This small workshop-style publishing house was famous, and later published works by writers including Eliot, Catherine Mansfield, Freud, and all of Woolf's works.

Woolf was also a feminist who fought for women's right to vote in Britain.

She criticized the women in Jane Eyre for being "always governesses and always falling in love", and Charlotte Brontë did not have the strength and breadth of vision to shape the characters.

She emphasizes the unique sense of femininity, promotes the unique value of women, and asks women to "be themselves".

It can be said that she is a maverick.

The reason why Woolf wrote to Lin Zixuan was because she read Lin Zixuan's "Gone with the Wind", and she thought that Scarlett's image was more feminine and awakened than Jane Eyre.

However, she also bluntly criticized "Gone with the Wind" for its terrible storytelling, which is good from the perspective of popular literature, but it cannot be a real work of art.

This is actually the view of the British towards the Americans.

The British always feel that the Americans are too short-founded, have no literary precipitation, and are too rude and impetuous, while the Americans say that the British are too conservative and old-fashioned, and have no open spirit and free concept.

Woolf was curious about China, and she was even more curious about the Chinese writers who could write Gone with the Wind.

In addition, Lin Zixuan has a bit of prestige in her circle, so she wrote to Lin Zixuan to discuss many topics such as literary writing and women's liberation.

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

It can be seen that this Englishwoman thinks differently, or this is the way of thinking of geniuses.

I've become a friend of women.

Lin Zixuan is a little inexplicable, he is not a genius, and he doesn't know much about the ideas of geniuses, but as a traverser, he is more open to the concept of women than the British in this era.

He was not embarrassed to discuss gender issues.

Besides, you can't let an English woman compare with you, who is afraid of whom!

He wrote a reply and even predicted the emergence of a female prime minister in Britain in the near future, in this case Margaret Thatcher.

In 1918, women over the age of 30 were granted the right to vote, and it was not until 1928 that women in Britain finally gained the same right to vote as men.

Woolf was shocked and delighted by the future described by Lin Zixuan, and felt that this man was more open-minded and long-term than the people of his time, and that he was a truly far-sighted scholar.

As a result, the two exchanged letters constantly, and the topics discussed were comprehensive and extensive.

The content of their letters was disseminated by Woolf within the Bloomsbury Group, and Lam's name was gradually recognized by the elite of British culture.

They regarded Lin Zixuan as a representative figure in China's cultural and ideological circles.