Frank Kermode died yesterday. He was 90. It was Frank Kermode who taught me how to love Shakespeare. It was his brilliant perception and his writing style that made me enjoy reading literary criticism.
I borrow this quote from The Guardian:
On the bookshelf to my left, I can still spot a few of his titles. They are always close by."One of the great benefits of seriously reading English is you're forced to read a lot of other things," he said. "You may not have a very deep acquaintance with Hegel but you need to know something about Hegel. Or Hobbes, or Aristotle, or Roland Barthes. We're all smatterers in a way, I suppose. But a certain amount of civilisation depends on intelligent smattering."
Thank you and farewell, Mr. Kermode. RIP.
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