This critic characterized the subject of one of his essays as "not, strictly speaking, a novelist," but rather an author of "Cautionary Tales," in his essay on the author of Miss Lonelyhearts, "West's Disease.
This critic characterized the subject of one of his essays as "not, strictly speaking, a novelist," but rather an author of "Cautionary Tales," in his essay on the author of Miss Lonelyhearts, "West's Disease." This critic wrote of the difficulty of grasping the "syllabic verse" of the author of "The Pangolin," in his essay on Marianne Moore, whom he grouped with D.H. Lawrence as one of two "bestiaries." In an essay whose title reverses the order of two figures that title a chapter of Henry Adams' Mont St. Michel and Chartres, this critic claimed that Adams, in worshipping Venus, actually worshipped the second title figure of "The Virgin and the Dynamo." This critic borrowed from the Biographia Literaria the distinction between Primary and Secondary Imagination that he explored in a lecture later published as (*) "Making, Knowing, and Judging," and drew on the example of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in an essay analyzing the master-servant relationship in literature, "Balaam and His Ass." For 10 points, identify this critic whose studies of, among other things, Shakespeare, are collected in the volume The Dyer's Hand.
This critic characterized the subject of one of his essays as "not, strictly speaking, a novelist," but rather an author of "Cautionary Tales," in his essay on the author of Miss Lonelyhearts, "West's Disease.
W[ystan] H[ugh] {Auden}