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Frank Kermode RIP

Anything he wrote was well worth reading, more than once. Prominent in literary criticism since the 1950s, Kermode held “virtually every endowed chair worth having in the British Isles”, according to his former colleague John Sutherland, from King Edward VII professor of English literature at Cambridge to Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at… Continue reading Frank Kermode RIP