The Education of Philip French
Marilyn Butler, 16 October 1980
Three Honest Men: Edmund Wilson, F.R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling
edited by Philip French.
Carcanet, 120 pp., £6.95, July 1980,0 85635 299 3 Show More
edited by Philip French.
Carcanet, 120 pp., £6.95, July 1980,
“... case. Taped interviews with eight or so concerned onlookers (some of them, like Christopher Ricks, George Steiner and Gore Vidal, younger candidates for sagedom) are cut and rearranged to give a chronological sense of each career, but also a whiff of the blood and cordite of intellectual warfare. The purpose is not quite literary biography or portraiture, for ... ”