There’s a tendency among academics to suffer silently while their book is fed to the Baal of bad reviewery - why? Some mixture of timidity or snobbery, no doubt. @jehsmith and @profrhodrilewis are exemplary in standing up for their own workhttps://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/05/brief-reply-to-a-bad-review.html …
It’s a difficult call. There’s a countervailing bit of wisdom that says: Aquila non captat muscas.
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I guess that’s right. Still, replies to critics have generated some fine vitriolic verse, from Byron’s ‘English Bards & Scotch Reviewers’ to David Norbrook’s defense in rhyming skeltonics of his ‘Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance’: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v08/n22/letters#letter5 …pic.twitter.com/HVG3lpv7yi
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I'd forgotten about that from David. It /is/ rather wonderful. I obviously also make an exception for the LRB ... tho Raine might have done a better job on mine than the person they used.
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Yes, it's difficult. Some you have to let slide -- or, indeed, buzz off on their own puzzled/angry way. Also, I don't mind so much when they actually read the whole book first (reasonable people can and do differ), but that wasn't the case in the three hits on my last book.
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