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...Charles Hendrickson Brower. president and chairman of the executive committee. Batten. Barton. Durstine & Osborn...
However, one can use Brower's own techniques of analysis to come up with one small but significant indication that there is such a relationship. Let us consider the following passage from an essay on Frost...
...that is, finally, the most basic weakness of this collection: It is inconceivable that it would interest anyone coming to it without the experience of Hum 6 to teach him to make allowances. In Defense of Reading simply doesn't work as one of Brower's attempts to spread his ideas and win support for them...
...been such a success as an editor, however; one wonders why Paul Alpers is not represented by some of his brilliant comments on the Faeric Queene instead of by the criticism of other critics' criticism of King Lear, which appears here. Also, one misses an essay by Professor Brower in addition to his introduction (which, by the way, must deserve some sort of prize for the number of times it has been anthologized); some of Brower's memorable remarks on Troilus and Cressida might, for example, have replaced the rather wretched essay on Henry VIII. (And of the two little...
...editor, Poirier (along with Brower) is indirectly responsible for the bleakness of much of his volume. What one misses most in the majority of these essays is the sense of what used to be called "vocation"; the three essays I singled out have it, and that makes them exciting. De Man is obviously fascinated by the overt mysticism of Yeats and the more furtive strangeness of Wordsworth; Taylor really sees in Parkman a figure whose own history made his writings something a great deal more interesting than mere chronicles; while Poirier is dedicated to a particular way of seeing...