The Evening Colonnade

The Evening Colonnade is a collection of essays and reviews by the English writer and critic Cyril Connolly.

The jacket was designed by Cecil Beaton, who had been a contemporary of Connolly at St Cyprian's prep school in Eastbourne.

It consists primarily of Connolly's articles written when he was joint chief book reviewer (with Raymond Mortimer) for The Sunday Times.

he asked rhetorically in his introduction) from Alexander Pope's poem on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade The morning bower, the ev'ning colonnade But soft recesses of uneasy minds To sigh unheard in, to the passing winds?

Connolly also had in mind the Arcades of the Italian proto-surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico.