Charging Downhill

Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.

Other articles by this contributor:

Who has the gall? · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Complicated Detours · Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips

Nothing for Ever and Ever · Housman’s Pleasures

At Tate Britain · William Blake

The Savage Life · The Adventures of William Empson

Nutmegged · The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis.

First Pitch · Marianne Moore

Writing about Shakespeare · Frank Kermode has his say