‘Message from your wife, sir.’ ‘Not now.’ ‘She says: “Have nothing to do with this just man”’Frank Kermode
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 27 May 1999 ] Lewis Smith. Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error. Other articles by this contributor: Complicated Detours · Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips At Tate Britain · William Blake Nothing for Ever and Ever · Housman’s Pleasures Our Muddy Vesture · Frank Kermode watches Pacino’s Merchant of Venice The Savage Life · The Adventures of William Empson Writing about Shakespeare · Frank Kermode has his say ‘Disgusting’ · Frank Kermode remembers William Empson Who has the gall? · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |