Frank Kermode
18 August 2010
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Frank Kermode, who wrote for the LRB from its very first issue, died yesterday in Cambridge.
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Alan Macfarlane did a long interview with Frank Kermode last year. It’s available here.
Nobody can hope for much more than 90 years, but even so I’m very sad to hear this. We’ve lost a powerful mind, a consistently independent thinker and a great writer.
I am sorry to hear that. Frank Kermode is a great man
Heard the news on the radio as we were driving back from Ness on Lewis. Was immediately shocked and sorry. Of course it had to come sometime, but his essays in recent years for the LRB have been so excellent and lucid that one hoped he might go on to the full century undimmed – and that we would have the pleasure of a few more. I remember him at the Edinburgh Book Festival talking about Otello and Othello – the place was packed, the audience enthralled. A great critic and a generous spirit.