The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

[Mark Kohut]

Richard Ryan's instincts must be right.....

i can not find that Auden quote anywhere in Google book search....i've 
neverheard it either...(and i had
heard many)...................



----- Original Message ----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
Cc: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 12:26:06 PM
Subject: Re: The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

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?