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Posted on July 14, 2018

“Cocks exist for the hen, but hens exist for the cock” – is there such thing as self – parody? with Bernard Richards, Max Beerbohm, Algernon Swinburne, Henry Reed – and Tennyson, Eliot and Kipling

This letter from Bernard Richards in the 29th June TLS caught my eye: Sir, – Francis Hope spoke in his reprinted review of Nabokov’s Ada (From the Archives, June 22) of authors writing…

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Posted on May 31, 2018May 31, 2018

“The Faber Popular Reciter”, Introduction by Kingsley Amis

In a letter of 12 August 1977 to Robert Conquest, Kingsley Amis wrote: The Faber Book of Non-Trendy Verse has been easier and is going faster: a careful look through…

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Posted on March 18, 2017August 30, 2018

Yeats on Kipling: “I dislike his works so much that I feel sure it must have something to teach me”

(edit 30th August 2018 – for more on the uneasy relationship between another poet and Yeats, see here.  For a TLS letter which also features Kipling (in a perhaps less than…

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