Endearingness
Donald Davie, 21 March 1991
The Oxford Book of Essays
edited by John Gross.
Oxford, 680 pp., £17.95, February 1991,0 19 214185 6 Show More
edited by John Gross.
Oxford, 680 pp., £17.95, February 1991,
“... he/she gets prompter acceptance and payment for a review than for a poem or a story. We have all read about how the essay is itself an honourable genre (obeisances to Michel de Montaigne), and most of us by now know that there is no fixed frontier between literature and journalism: all the same, some writing is designedly ephemeral whereas some isn’t, and ... ”