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Tag: Beckett

101. (Javier Marias)

“Souls” thinned out long ago. And when Javier Marias writes, in his campus novel, and Oxford novel, All Souls, that “Dewar … More

Beckett, Cather, Dickens, James, Javier Marias, Joyce, Oxford, personhood, Spanish fiction

30. (Samuel Johnson)

At the same time as the novel was rising in the world, the greatest force in English letters was working … More

Beckett, Criticism, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry, Samuel Johnson

8. (Robert Browning)

Bagehot, a man in the know, confides to his readership: “One of his greatest admirers once owned to us that … More

Attention, Beckett, Dante, Davie, Poetry, Robert Browning, Ruskin, Shelley, Syntax, Victorian
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