@HeerJeet @morton_brian As a critic Howe was much better with the dead than w/ the living; so testily humorless in his attack on P. Roth.
@morton_brian Howe handled poets like Frost and Hardy with a delicacy that Wilson just didn't have. H's Selected Essays a favorite book.
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@JamesWolcott@morton_brian Yeah, that Roth piece isn't good (although it gave us Milton Apple and some fine whining in The Anatomy Lesson).
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@morton_brian@JamesWolcott In the last few months Howe's name came up a dozen times on twitter, facebook, list-serves etc. He's rememberedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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