Criticism Starts - It Has To Start

Literature Is Achieved Anxiety.

I Don't Believe In Myths Of Decline Or Myths Of Progress, Even As Regards The Literary Scene.

In Fact, It Is Shakespeare Who Gives Us The Map Of The Mind. It Is Shakespeare Who Invents Freudian Psychology. Freud Finds Ways Of Translating It Into Supposedly Analytical Vocabulary.

Sometimes One Succeeds, Sometimes One Fails.

We Read Not Only Because We Cannot Know Enough People, But Because Friendship Is So Vulnerable, So Likely To Diminish Or Disappear, Overcome By Space, Time, Imperfect Sympathies, And All The Sorrows Of Familial And Passional Life.