Volume 13, Number 9 · November 20, 1969
The Curious Case of Amalia Popper
By Helen Barolini, Richard Ellmann
'Issues from the hand of God the simple soul….'; and issue from the pens of pundits definitive works. Or so they're meant to be and so we, the readers, must take them on faith, not able to engage in our own arduous literary researches to confirm or contest that wealth of detail which scholars dredge up to confound and amaze us when mining the life and works of the particular authors they've claimed as theirs. The great men are not to be questioned; their words set slippery things like literary tastes in place. Eliot could change the taste for Milton and Dickens could be almost eradicated from the scene by critical edict.
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