Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on ‘Real Life’
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory,
Edward Mendelson
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Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on ‘Real Life’
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory,
Auden’s N.Y. Households, From Slum to Sublime
Later Auden , by Edward Mendelson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 570 pages, $30. In the late 1940’s, W.H. Auden became
