John Lennard

John Lennard But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse appeared in 1992. He is a fellow in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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Shop Talk

27 January 1994

I am grateful to Arthur Johnston and Edward Wilson (Letters, 24 February) for denying Sir-Robert-now-Lord Armstrong the credit that Professor Nash and I wrongly gave him for coining the phrase ‘economical with the truth’: and I am sorry to have missed the latter’s letter to the Times and the replies it provoked. It is salutary to be reminded that the forms of veracious economy include both plagiarism...

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High Punctuation

Christopher Ricks, 14 May 1992

Fecund and jocund, well-earned and learnèd, wittily wily, But I digress is a delight and a treasure-house, alive with moving illumination and with benign warning, in short a delight-house of...

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