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Breakfast Served Any Time All Day BY Donald Hall University of Michigan Press, $29.95 The title's a bit cutesy, but the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, strange, and unified. Hall has been around a long time, and you can trace the concerns of a generation through the mind of this one man: questions about the diminished scope of poetry, the diminished ambitions of poets, how a poem "means," etc. One of the chief pleasures of the book is the achieved tone, which is at once careful and casual, sweeping yet capable of the most acute observations. Another is the unrepentant Romanticism. "Literature is largely although not entirely the product of maniacs," Hall says at the end of this book. He's right. Criticism, though, is an exercise in sanity, of which these essays are a splendid and useful example. Buy this book Amazon Barnes and Noble Book Sense |
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