Books in Brief: Elegy for Corsica

Elegy for Corsica, by Geoffrey Wagner (Southern Illinois University Press, 174 pp., $2.25). Geoffrey Wagner’s love of Corsica makes its way to us through a mass of details. He writes this book with statistics and anecdotes, all of them put down at a leisurely Mediterranean pace. I could love Cyprus greatly after reading Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons, because Durrell recreated Cyprus from the inside, from the heart of the Cypriot people. On the other hand, Geoffrey Wagner, in Elegy for Corsica, is a reporter rather than a poet.

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Philip P. Ardery Jr. is a former National Review associate.

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Elegy for Corsica, by Geoffrey Wagner (Southern Illinois University Press, 174 pp., $2.25). Geoffrey Wagner’s love of Corsica makes its way to us through a mass of details. He writes this book with statistics and anecdotes, all of them put down at a leisurely Mediterranean pace. I could love Cyprus greatly after reading Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons, because Durrell recreated Cyprus from the inside, from the heart of the Cypriot people. On the other hand, Geoffrey Wagner, in Elegy for Corsica, is a reporter rather than a poet.