Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005

The King of Crit

By Frank Kermode
The Power of Delight: Essays 1962–2002
by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey

Norton, 512 pp., $27.95

So Leonard Welsted, a minor poet himself, in his Dissertation Concerning the Perfection of the English Language and the State of Poetry, published in 1724.



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