Puffed Wheat
James Wood: How serious is John Bayley?, 20 October 2005
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002
by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey.
Duckworth, 677 pp., £25, March 2005,0 7156 3312 0 Show More
by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey.
Duckworth, 677 pp., £25, March 2005,
“... most prominent Oxford professors of English since the war have all been populist pretenders. John Carey, scourge of Modernist ‘intellectuals’ and reliable dribbler of cold water on all forms of overheated aestheticism, comes across as the last defender of sensible English decency. Terry Eagleton, with his blokeish binarisms and comic’s ... ”