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,
“... the sickliness of this has been recognised and condemned. It was one of the Leavisites – Denys Thompson, I believe – who put the boot in on the Essays of Elia; and this was one of the Leavisite demolition-jobs that truly cleared a space, and let the air in, for a more than academic public. John Gross, though he dutifully and unavoidably finds ... ”