A good review, though I wonder the reviewer did not make more of his premise about the book competing head to head with poplar culture. It was his opening gambit after all.
If his premise was not entirely tongue in cheek, he might have discovered other synergies, such as, for example, the immense popularity of Graham Greene, the poet's other preoccupation, a writer whose fictions (Greene called them "entertainments") managed to be be both aesthetically compelling and popular.
A real hornet's nest this business of art vs the circus, but one still worth some attention, I think.
Meantime, the reviewer did his main job - of reminding me I have to get this book. Thank-you, sir.
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A good review, though I wonder the reviewer did not make more of his premise about the book competing head to head with poplar culture. It was his opening gambit after all.
If his premise was not entirely tongue in cheek, he might have discovered other synergies, such as, for example, the immense popularity of Graham Greene, the poet's other preoccupation, a writer whose fictions (Greene called them "entertainments") managed to be be both aesthetically compelling and popular.
A real hornet's nest this business of art vs the circus, but one still worth some attention, I think.
Meantime, the reviewer did his main job - of reminding me I have to get this book. Thank-you, sir.
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