Volume 27, Number 10 · June 12, 1980
How to Read a Book
By John Bayley
The Tale Bearers: Literary Essays
by V.S. Pritchett
Random House, 223 pp., $10.00
It is getting rare to find good criticism that is not written to excite students or impress fellow academics. The teachers who produce it must either be fierce or mysterious—some are both—for they depend upon bored and fickle clients, who can only be made to sit up by being told that by means of secret ingredient X literature can at last be enjoyed for the first time. The typical academic article begins: 'The true place of Titus Andronicus in our culture has never been properly understood.'
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