Good dinners pass away, so do tyrants and toothacheTerry Eagleton
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 7 May 1998 ] John Bayley, Charles Mayo. Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life. Other articles by this contributor: Newsreel History · Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad Nudge-Winking · T.S. Eliot’s Politics Coruscating on Thin Ice · The Divine Spark Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching · Terry Eagleton lambasts Richard Dawkins Reach-Me-Down Romantic · For and Against Orwell A Spot of Firm Government · Claude Rawson In the Gaudy Supermarket · Gayatri Spivak Mothering · The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín |