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John Carey, FBA, FRSL (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama.
Apr 29, 2020 · John Carey: The last public critic. A distinguished Oxford academic and newspaper critic, Carey has been a cultural influencer for 50 years. He is a high-establishment insider – and yet has never forgotten the social slights he experienced as a young man.
Dec 8, 2022 · John Carey is, or ought to be, a national treasure. The Merton professor of English literature at Oxford from 1975 to 2002, he is the brilliant editor of Milton, the brilliant author of books about Dickens and Thackeray and Donne, and the brilliant biographer of William Golding; he has also been a tireless campaigner for the common reader ...
Mar 20, 2014 · This week's Meet the Author is with Sunday Times critic and Oxford University professor, John Carey. His work, "The Unexpected Professor: an Oxford Life in Books", is an autobiography...
John Carey is one of Britain’s most distinguished academics and literary critics, who has managed to combine scholarly rigour with invigorating attacks on elitist views of high culture. Carey is a life-long Oxford don: even in retirement he is emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature.
John Carey has 183 books on Goodreads with 335793 ratings. John Carey’s most popular book is Eyewitness to History.
Mar 4, 2020 · A short film about 'A Little History of Poetry' with John Carey, emeritus professor at Oxford University. 'A Little History of Poetry' is a vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry...
Nov 15, 2022 · A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews—amassed over a lifetime of writing. In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times.
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Oct 23, 2022 · D.J. Taylor. One of the most revealing moments in Sunday Best — a collection of book reviews dating back to the late 1980s — comes when John Carey, invited to appraise some items about Robert Graves, remembers hobnobbing with the author of I, Claudius half a century ago in Oxford’s High Street.
