I enjoyed Michael Moorcock’s essay Epic Pooh on this topic
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I don't think Davenport is well described by either "anglophile" or "conservative."
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He's not easy to pigeon hole.
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Apparently his lectures on Medieval Literature were unintelligible-- he mumbled through them, leaving his students to boredom and daydreams. (Amis and Larkin skipped out in favor of the pub and the record shop, this last for the purpose of stealing jazz discs.)
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He also gets a brief negative mention in one of John Fowles' novels. Daniel Martin I think it was.
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Thanks, that was great. Didn't know Davenport was a fan. He's dead right about the names.
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Tolkien's facility at inventing appropriate names was extraordinary.
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Translation: People like to read interesting books.
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I can recommend Norman F. Cantor, Inventing The Middle Ages, for an exploration of the "medievalist turn" in the post - war West and its cultural significance.
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Perry Anderson remarks that most medieval scholars completely ignored Eastern Europe, which was intellectually culpable but also convenient after The Iron Curtain went up.
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