Manly Love
John Bayley, 28 January 1993
Walt Whitman: From Moon to Starry Night
by Philip Callow.
Allison and Busby, 394 pp., £19.99, October 1992,0 85031 908 0 Show More
by Philip Callow.
Allison and Busby, 394 pp., £19.99, October 1992,
The Double Life of Stephen Crane
by Christopher Benfey.
Deutsch, 294 pp., £17.99, February 1993,0 233 98820 3 Show More
by Christopher Benfey.
Deutsch, 294 pp., £17.99, February 1993,
“... insolent composure’ the poet felt the genius of four separate artists, the ‘finger-touch of Plutarch and Aeschylus and Michelangelo, assisted by Rabelais’: there was ‘something farcical about the scene, such as Shakespeare put in his blackest tragedies’. Always intensely literary in his responses – he never forgot how Junius Booth, the father of ... ”