Artemis and Harlequin

Artemis and Harlequin HUGH KENNER

Iss Moore at eighty (eighty!) is feisty enough to be the biblio- graphers’ despair, as for two genera- tions she has been the critics’. Critics have long felt the obligation to say something, and have never known what to say, except that she is the “greatest living observer” and seems – to keep a most idiosyncratic clipping- file. F. R. Leavis bought her Observa- tions in 1924, during ten years cut fewer than half the pages, was re- called to a sense of his obligations by the Eliot preface to the 1935 Selected Poems, and collapsed in bafflement:

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Artemis and Harlequin HUGH KENNER

Iss Moore at eighty (eighty!) is feisty enough to be the biblio- graphers’ despair, as for two genera- tions she has been the critics’. Critics have long felt the obligation to say something, and have never known what to say, except that she is the “greatest living observer” and seems – to keep a most idiosyncratic clipping- file. F. R. Leavis bought her Observa- tions in 1924, during ten years cut fewer than half the pages, was re- called to a sense of his obligations by the Eliot preface to the 1935 Selected Poems, and collapsed in bafflement: