Thursday, March 08, 2012

Q & A ...

... Adam Gopnik on Favourite Essay Collections | FiveBooks | The Browser. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


There are certain kinds of criticism that I think of as essentially essays – Clive James or Randall Jarrell’s criticism, for instance – whereas there are other critics whom I admire just as much – say [William] Empson and [WH] Auden – but whom I don’t think of as essayists. They’re superior literary critics.

I can't agree about Auden. I think he was a fine essayist.

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