Hasped and Hooped and Hirpling

From the LRB letters page: [ 9 December 1999 ] Nicholas Perkins.

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.

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