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Magazine work, said the irasc ...
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050619
Author:Michael Dirda
WILLIAM EMPSON
Volume I: Among the Mandarins
By John Haffenden. Oxford Univ. 695 pp. $45 Magazine work, said the irascible Thomas Carlyle, ranks below street-cleaning as a trade. But I've always wondered if he wasn't really talking about what we would now call literary criticism. Certainly the mayfly buzz accompanying book reviews and articles of cultural interest and every sort of theoretical polemic is astonishingly short-lived. Even the least of novelists has a better chance of being read after he is dead than the best of critics. And by the best I mean William Empson.
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