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“... of an excellent Radio 3 programme in 1999 and there is a fine introduction to it by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge, Nearly Too Much (1995). For some, all this exposure, combined with a move to a ‘mainstream’ publisher, has been like Bob Dylan going electric, but it represents an opportunity for the most radically innovative poet now writing to extend ...”

“... the idle reader. Commentaries on Prynne are rare and much needed. In Nearly Too Much, Reeve and Kerridge, both supervised by Prynne at Cambridge twenty years ago, take us as far as it’s possible for a non-partisan readership to go. They are outright admirers, but their book is short on special pleading; it goes about the poems in a series of close ...”

“... of escape’ – escape from society. Finally (and to be taken foremost) is A Sort of Clowning by Richard Hoggart, perhaps the most usefully class-conscious English writer of our time. He created an accepted general idea of the British ‘working class’ in 1957, with The Uses of Literacy. He developed his concept, most recently, in his memoir, A Local ...”