The disappearance of criticism
A friend mentioned to me that he felt alienated by the articulacy of a literary critical book he was reading; by its neutrality of tone, by its calm. Unruffled was another word he used. We all might recognise this feeling while …
Critic's block "Criticism is as inevitable as breathing," wrote TS Eliot , "and we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it". N…