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Rather Better Pasturage for Their Cows
Oh what a charming, funny, vicious book this is, how full of youthful spirit and sound common sense. Can we read Jane Austen’s first novel without gasping and gurgling? Can we read her without stretching our eyes as well as our hearts? In a...
Before the ripened field the reapers stand
Soon as the morning trembles o’er the sky,
And unperceived unfolds the spreading day,
Before the ripened field the reapers stand
In fair array, each by the lass he loves,
To bear the rougher part and mitigate
By n...
Tolkien in Poets’ Corner
JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis used to regularly share a pub table in Oxford to discuss their work. The pair will now be honoured side by side in Westminster Abbey, which will celebrate the author of The Lord of the Rings with a memorial in Poe...
My plea to English students.
For , I wrote about the recent brouhaha over the Princeton English syllabus. Yes, the syllabus has a lot of socialism, but the real problem, to my rather antiquated mind, is what it doesn’t have. The trend in so many places now is to requir...
There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one.
Here’s the Barbara Everett quote about “texts” which I could not find when I wrote my recent piece about literary criticism. From her review of Carpenter’s Auden biography in the LRB. My thanks to Sean Keilen for sending it to me. (Sean has...
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