Poetic Obituaries: John Gross, who died this week,

was Editor of the TLS from 1974 to 1981, and a contributor to the paper from 1960 (when he reviewed J. D. Salinger's For Esmé--with Love and Squalor) until last year (when he reviewed Dancing in the Dark: A cultural history of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein). His books include The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English literary life since 1800 (1969), The Oxford Book of Aphorisms (1983), Shylock: Four hundred years in the life of a legend (1992), A Double Thread: A childhood in Mile End--and beyond (2001) and The Oxford Book of Parodies (published last year, and reviewed in the TLS by Seamus Perry).

from Times Literary Supplement: John Gross, 1935--2011
then The New York Times: John Gross Dies at 75; Critic, Essayist and Editor

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