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proximoception) wrote2012-09-09 02:53 pm
proximoception) wrote2012-09-09 02:53 pm
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Another apparent mind-change by Bloom - "Stevenson was right: no other critic in English, not even Dr. Samuel Johnson, matches the power of Hazlitt's prose."
Apparent because of course one's prose isn't everything. But good to hear him admit even so much, since in the 90s he regularly called the excellent but limited Johnson his favorite writer. Within his genre I don't think you could detect many limits to Hazlitt.
Apparent because of course one's prose isn't everything. But good to hear him admit even so much, since in the 90s he regularly called the excellent but limited Johnson his favorite writer. Within his genre I don't think you could detect many limits to Hazlitt.