Tuesday, January 28, 2025

the unexpected professor - john carey (2014)


part memoir part sweeping review of literature as seen through a voracious english reader's eyes and part vignettes of d.h.lawrence george eliot and a few other favored writers. 

he has an agreeably dry style and (in the first parts of the book especially) effortlessly transports me to pre-war england then to post-war reconstruction and finally to the mid-century years. 

i think, at the end, how little have i read in my life! and also, how little i like poetry!

very happily, i get some new book names from him too, so it's all grist to the mill.

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