Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: By 1958 he was already admired for Romantic Image,

and an abundance of important projects lay ahead: an unfailing concern with Shakespeare was joined by a rich and productive reading of the Bible; he inquired into authority and interpretation, truth and error, and there was an engagement with literary theory. He led a celebrated seminar in that field during his happy years at University College London. More and more, he devoted himself to the literary imagination of America and to the poetry and fiction of his contemporaries, there and here.

from London Review of Books: Memories of Frank Kermode

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