![]() ![]() ![]() Since it was published in 1967, we have by now learned to "do without" some of the works mentioned, but the majority still thrive in the canon - something which I'm sure would dismay the above three.īefore you let fly with a scream at our iconoclasm, pause and playįair: do you *really* like, admire and (most important criterion ofĪll) enjoy the works in question, or do you merely think you ought I can't say anything more except to fill the rest of this with quotes. None of them put their names to their essays, but it doesn't matter because they are all hilarious. What seems to actually be the case is Brigid Brophy was a 38-year-old novelist/feminist/pacifist Michael Levey was a 40-year-old art historian and married to Brigid and Charles Osborne was a 40-year-old journalist and theatre/opera critic. Because of the aforementioned excellence. And then they said "Well, these are obviously excellent essays, so let's publish them." And of course someone published them. ![]() ![]() The authors, in my mind, are three graduate students in England who are all so brilliant, bored and irritated by the undergraduates that they decided to start writing essays on why all the books the undergrads like are rubbishy ones. ![]()
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