[lit-ideas] Re: Auden

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:34:33 -0700

I am struck by how formulaic, under the rhetorical flourish, this review is. "The writer seems to be hankering for a different subject. There are one or two lapses...which prove my own erudition. May I finish with some praise?" And yet I think his re- casting of the "write was you can observe carefully" dictum" is well phrased and in this instance, about right.


David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9405E7DA143BF93AA3575BC0A967948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

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