The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/20/2011 1:12 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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)...................
>

Don't you suppose Auden was making a jocular comment on Browning's 
wife's (Elizabeth Barrett)  famous sonnet?

There must have been at least a couple of ways in which she had cause 
not to love him. (that she didn't  enumerate in her poem)

P
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> ----- 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?
>
>