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rr he great literary critics are them-1 selves great prose writers, a fact that upon reflection should come as no surprise. One thinks of Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Arnold, T. S. Eliot, F....
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T here are two Hugh Kenners. The 1 first is a factual reporter of the early twentieth-century literary scene. This Kenner enjoys an encyclopedic grasp of his period, which he brings to bear on...
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A COLDER EYE: THE MODERN IRISH WRITERS
Hugh Kenner/Alfred A. Knopf / $16.95
Roger Lewis
There is a touch of the artist about Hugh Kenner. His discovery is that criticism need not be a meek and...
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BOUQUETS FROM YOUR BUREAUCRATS From the Department of the Army (San Francisco), for A- B- C- Distribution: " . . . 2. The hazards of walking (b) This inattention coupled with reading or reviewing...
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December that Reagan is misunderstood if judged by his five hours a week of official meetings. "Outside his allotted five hours, Mr. Reagan is not simply reading Variety. He is...
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Hugh Kenner CHAMBERS' MUSIC AND ALGER HISS Still guilty after all these years. The headline read, HISS ASSEMBLING CASE FOR RETRIAL, VINDICATION. The story was big and bylined ("By Mark Bowden,...
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"When Academe Ran A Fever" Out of the sixties emerged the Knowledge Factory, subdividing human curiosity into projects, breeding grants and white mice. Ike, "driven to the edge, almost,...
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Hugh Kenner The Poet aud the Pirate A special book review o f Ezra Pound: The Last Rower, a political biography by C. David Heymann (The Viking Press, $12.50). Pound comes to the reader of this...
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Nevertheless, the conclusion remains inescapable that the dangers inherent in the Nixon China policy are limited when compared with those created by Administration assumptions about the...
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