One of the curiosities of literary study today is how thoroughly the titan-critics of the mid-20th century have disappeared. Does any literature graduate student feel he must read The Well-Wrought Urn ...

You don’t have to dig deeply to discover the stress produced in many academics and writers by the constant stream of requests for letters of recommendation and book blurbs from former students, ...

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