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English 2009 58(222):264-266; doi:10.1093/english/efp027
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Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics

Mary Hammond

University of Southampton

Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics. Stefan Collini. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0199296781. £25.

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‘READING CRITICAL essays about critical essayists’, Collini warns us in the introduction to his new volume, ‘is not everyone's idea of a good time’, and it is true that during the first quarter of this collection which reviews recent biographies of a range of twentieth-century ‘men’ of letters including Cyril Connolly, V. S. Pritchett, George Orwell, Stephen Spender, and Rebecca West, the reader's experience is not likely to be memorable for its entertainment value. The chapters are erudite, beautifully written, and impressive in their historical breadth. But since they almost all fall into the category of what . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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