"Always a strong bias toward atavistic Chestertonian singing & shouting among the more fluent gentry of the right," -- Hugh Kenner, killing a thousand writers with quip.
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I disagree wth about 85% of what Hugh Kenner believed (including many of his literary judgements) but the man was smart as hell.
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That was not one of his better moments. His dismissal of Nabokov also has not held up well.
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