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Frank Kermode

Book Reviews

Spring 1984

The Augustan Idea

By Frank Kermode

The Augustan Idea in English Literature by Howard Erskine-Hill. London: Edward Arnold, 1983. xvi + 379 pages. $64.50. Most people have better things to do than argue about such terms […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1966

Robert Musil

By Frank Kermode

Robert Musil is still the least read of the great twentieth-century novelists, at any rate in the English-speaking countries, but this neglect can hardly last much longer; and when it […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1957

Dissociation of Sensibility

By Frank Kermode

The “dissociation of sensibility” has lately been wilting under well-directed criticism, and it may seem gratuitous at this stage to examine the concept in so much detail. But although it […]