Enemy of the Enemies of Truth

Frank Kermode

  • The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
    Faber, 241 pp, £12.99, December 1997, ISBN 0 571 17668 2

When Browning’s grammarian, grown old and bald and sick, was urged to get out of his cell and see a bit of life before he died, he replied that he still had work to do: ‘Grant I have mastered learning’s crabbed text,/Still there’s the comment.’ Anthony Grafton’s book is a commentary on the comment, some of it made, as Browning puts it, ‘shortly after the revival of learning in Europe’, though its scope is much wider than that.

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