High Punctuation
Christopher Ricks, 14 May 1992
But I digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse
by John Lennard.
Oxford, 324 pp., £35, November 1991,0 19 811247 5 Show More
by John Lennard.
Oxford, 324 pp., £35, November 1991,
“... hadn’t read William Percy.’Lennard likewise had the good sense to inquire of Tony Harrison and Jon Stallworthy as to his speculations about their parentheses. (Confirmed, though not thereby proved.) He and we wouldn’t have to take the poets’ word for it, but how odd of differently-minded critics to want to shut their ears to the poets’ words ... ”