Volume 37, Number 2 · February 15, 1990
The True Amateur
By Noel Annan
Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon
by Michael Shelden
Harper and Row, 254 pp., $24.95
'Why are so many people in England down on Cyril Connolly?' Edmund Wilson asked John Wain in 1957. Wain gave a sensible reply. Fashion had changed. The man of letters had been superseded by the professional academic critic. Empson and Leavis, Blackmur and Tate made discriminations and analyzed the text. Critics had at their fingertips examples of the intentional fallacy and the dissociation of sensibility. The critic now took his vocation as seriously as a young priest.
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