The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

[David Morris]

I'm sure there's no samll amount of jealousy involved.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Interesting that many of the targets are almost certainly greater figures than the writers casting stones (Woolf on Joyce; Wells on Shaw; Stevenson on Whitman).
>
> Quite funny, some of them, though mostly inaccurate or (worse)
 uncomprehending.  Auden on Browning is asinine  - and Auden was a
bright, witty man, so where did this come from?