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Are there any critics now active (Kermode is
> a survivor but one sees relatively little of him nowadays) whom one
> reads as one did Empson, Kenner or Davenport - or, indeed, Duncan or
> Thom Gunn - for the sheer enjoyment of the thing, while being
> intellectually regaled? Heaney bores me, poetry or prose - which may be
> my blankness. Und sonst?
> mj
>
James Wood.
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