How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might...

I don’t see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]

In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation’s recurrent anxieties–the idea that art might be impossible in the twentieth century. The reasons that art seemed impossible...

Die Kunst des Rezensierens besteht nicht zuletzt darin, selbst über langweilige Bücher fesselnd zu schreiben.

There is a remarkable degree of consistency in the way mediaeval literature affirms humanity. With all its faults, humanity emerges as more realistic than heavenly ideals…….Because the mediaeval period is seen from our own times...

Too often critics have taken as the sole and crucial matter of fantasy the preoccupation of Tolkien, the quest for a remedy to the world’s pain that will not destroy innocence with the temptations of...