Rating: - The Soul of Literary Criticism in Our Age
A disappointing book, mainly because the structure is irritating, resulting in a work that skips about from subject to subject until the impression is: how to demonstrate what the author has studied. Such an expansive subject demands a more natural, less self-centered, and perhaps more rigorous way to lead the reader.
This would be a good introductory book for an English undergraduate with a general interest in the time, provided they were content to go where ever they were taken and didn't read too critically.
The author's most counter-intuitive assertion was that Shakespeare didn't value books and probably only owned about twenty. I doubt that there is any evidence for this and I wonder what this implies about the ... Read More: