Tuesday, September 05, 2006

News at Eleven: It follows from this that [John] Betjeman

is not really the sort of poet you can teach, and he is therefore of no interest to the academic Eng. Lit. clerisy. It is hard to imagine anyone getting a Ph.D. by "interpreting" Betjeman. There is nothing to interpret.

from National Review: A Triumphant Misfit

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