The Uses of Error
by Frank Kermode
Harvard University Press, 432 pp., $59.50
Bury Place Papers: Essays from the London Review of Books
by Frank Kermode
London: London Review of Books, 272 pp., £14.99 (paper)
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
by Frank Kermode
Harvard University Press, 169 pp., $25.50 (paper)
Shakespeare’s Language
by Frank Kermode
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 324 pp., (2000)
The most versatile and the most distinguished of English literary critics since William Empson, Frank Kermode, died on August 17 of last year. Coming not from the English mainland but from the Isle of Man, he always felt somewhat alien in Britain even after he held prestigious positions at the universities of London and Cambridge. He was knighted, but did not display the Sir on his books: his autobiography was entitled Not Entitled.
