Today's New York Times carries an obituary of the critic Frederick Crews. The headline calls him a "Withering Critic of Freud", featuring what I had supposed was a sideline of his. I knew of him as a literary critic, though actually I had not read his chief works in that line.
The one book of Crews's that I did read was The Pooh Perplex, a collection of essays on Winnie the Pooh in the manner of then (1963) prominent critics. Under the invented names, I was able to pick out Fredson Bowers, F.R. Leavis, Leslie Fiedler, and D.W. Robertson. No doubt the more widely read could pick out more. I regret that I never bought for myself a copy of Post-Modern Pooh, published in 2001.
No comments:
Post a Comment