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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the...

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the...

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from...

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from...

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the...

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I...

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I...

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one...

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one...

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor...

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor...

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The...

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The...

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never...

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never...

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us...

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us...

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am...

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am...

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It...

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It...

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it...

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it...

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just...

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just...

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But...

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But...

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough...

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough...

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode...

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode...