Carey, an editor at The New Yorker has selected 69 essays and articles by Bayley, a pillar of literary criticism on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1950s. They consider English literature, the English poets, Mother Russia, American poetry, out of eastern Europe, aspects of novels, correspondences between writers, and contemporary works. Only n
This collection of essays deals, essentially, with all aspects of literature: from Joseph Conrad to Gogol, from Shakespeare to Lowell. Almost all of these essays are very good, showing not only why a certain author is important but also argue for a very specific view of him (or, more rarely, her). For example, seeing Gogol as the real father of Russian literature, he quotes--if I remember correctly--Dostoyevsky, who said...
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