Editing Anthony Burgess (section)

==== University ====
Burgess had originally hoped to study music at university, but the music department at the [[Victoria University of Manchester]] turned down his application because of poor grades in [[physics]].<ref name=HRC>{{cite web|url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.bio.html|title=Anthony Burgess, 1917–1993, Biographical Sketch|work=Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050830172945/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/burgess.bio.html|archive-date=30 August 2005|date=8 June 2004}}</ref> Instead, he studied [[English language]] and [[English literature|literature]] there between 1937 and 1940, graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts]]. His thesis concerned [[Christopher Marlowe|Marlowe]]'s ''[[The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus|Doctor Faustus]]'', and he graduated with an [[upper second-class honours]], which he found disappointing.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|pp=97–98}}.</ref> When grading one of Burgess's term papers, the historian [[A. J. P. Taylor]] wrote: "Bright ideas insufficient to conceal lack of knowledge."<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=95}}.</ref>