him "the only impressionist in the English novel" and "the source." He added that although he enjoyed several of Firbank's novels, he described his own writing as containing a greater vivid personal imagination when compared with Firbank's.<ref>" BROWN, Richard Blake", "Between the Covers. Retrieved on 28 July 2022.</ref> His novels have been championed by many English novelists including E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Raven. The poet W. H. Auden praised him highly in a radio broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in June 1961 (the text of the broadcast was published in The Listener of 8 June 1961). Susan Sontag named his novels as part of "the canon of camp" in her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'". In her 1973 critical biography, Prancing Novelist, Brigid Brophy examines Firbank's cult of Oscar Wilde. Angela Carter created a radio play inspired by the life of Firbank called A Self-Made Man which was first broadcast on Radio 3 in 1984. Steven Moore records Firbank's critical reception up to 1995 in his Ronald Firbank: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials (Dalkey Archive Press, 1996). In Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Swimming Pool Library Firbank's work and life are central themes. Published works Early publications "An Early Flemish Painter", in The Academy; 73 (28 September 1903), p. 948 (about Jan Gossaert) "La Princesse aux soleils, romance parlée ...(Trad. de l'anglais par l'auteur)", in Les Essais. Revue Mensuelle; II (November 1904), pp. 78–80 "Harmonie ... (trad. de l'anglais par l'auteur)", in Les Essais. Revue Mensuelle; II (February 1905), pp. 305–06 "Souvenir d'automne. A Poem In Prose". Supplement to The King and His Navy and Army; 21 (2 December 1905) Odette d'Antrevernes and A Study in Temperament (stories, Elkin Mathews, 1905) Odette d'Antevernes (1905, separate large-paper edition; reprinted by Grant Richards in 1916 as Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People, with four illustrations by Albert Buhrer) "The Wavering Disciple. A Fantasia", in Granta; 20 (1906 November 24), pp. 110–11 and 20 (5 December 1906), pp. 130–32 "A Study In Opal", in Granta; 21 (2 November 1907) Major works Vainglory ... with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops (novel, 1915) Inclinations ... with two drawings by Albert Rutherston (Rothenstein) (novel, 1916) Caprice ... with a frontispiece by Augustus John (novel, 1917) "Fantasia For Orchestra In F Sharp Minor", in Art and Letters; II N.S. (1919 Spring), p. 64-79; draft of a chapter of Valmouth (1919)