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James Wood: The ‘TLS’, 27 June 2002
Critical Times: The History of the ‘Times Literary Supplement’
by Derwent May.
HarperCollins, 606 pp., £25, November 2001,0 00 711449 4 Show More
by Derwent May.
HarperCollins, 606 pp., £25, November 2001,
“... paper’s first lead review was of More Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, done by Augustine Birrell, a barrister, a Liberal MP, and the author of a volume of essays entitled Obiter Dicta. The first poem was by Harold Begbie. It was an anthem for Empire, and May succinctly describes it as ‘rather an absurd poem’. English studies, as an academic ... ”