He was a very funny writer.
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Sheffield was a steady job though!
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He got that fairly late in life, if I remember correctly, after a career of odd jobs.
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Who has aged the worst? Lionel Trilling?
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Yeah, Trilling seems like a minor Victorian. I think a lot of Leavis is also dead except for Reevaluations.
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Brooklyn hipster would be 'the right handle for the bundle' to describe Empson today
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You think too highly of Brooklyn hipsters.
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Empson >> Hitchens. Also Empson >> Brooklyn hipsters.
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Of course. Milton's God is better than God is Not Great (although I've often thought Empson's rhetoric influenced Hitchens).
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