I think all agree that G. Maxwell is the kind of example you don't
want on your side, but: Marjorie, how am I, as a student of English
literature, to write critical essays on, say, Dryden or Milton, if
qualification to that task must respectfully involve my own comparative
achievement? Does the logic of an earned perspective only function in
published criticism? Only if it is directed against a living writer?
Both criteria seem a little decorously censorious: the beauty of seeing
Maxwell arrogant enough to have his particular say, is that I (a
sub-Maxwellishly anonymous stripling) can have mine back at him (today on
the british poets list, tomorrow...). I don't understand what you mean by
"we", in the phrase "we wouldn't..." Yrs, Keston
- re: "certified" - there are many different certificates, it seems...is
Bernstein a professor?
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