The fruits of a very few leisure hours
I here present your Highness with the fruits of a very few leisure hours, stolen from the short intervals of a world of business, and of an employment quite alien from such amusements as this:
- Ellis tells a story just as sad as the one in my last post.
- Ed lampoons Sir Vidia. I remind him about the monkeys.
- TEV remembers McGahern.
- RSB talks with the wonderful Josipovici.
- AS Kline offers a nice archive of classic poetry in translation.
- Patrick Kurp writes about Kazin (via BooksInq)
- Literary translators blog.
- New books, all kinds.
The intro’s from Swift. But you knew that.
April 1st, 2006 04:14
Patrick Kurp writes about Kazin again, and “the useful critics.”
April 1st, 2006 09:45
Thanks, Dave. I loved this Kazin passage that Patrick quotes:
“Keats is one of the few writers on Shakespeare who help me to read him and not just to read about him. Shakespeare is entirely real to Keats, and so Keats makes Shakespeare less unreal to me. That is what I look for in a critic – his use to me; I can use critics whose general point of view is outrageous to me, but who in specific matters have this capacity for making a writer real and a text real.”