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Dec 8, 2022 · Culture. From the January / February 2023 issue. Lips and ledges: the writings of John Carey. A new collection of journalism by one of Britain’s most perceptive literary critics contains much to savour. But, sadly, it also omits his more acerbic side. By Rhodri Lewis. December 8, 2022. REVIEWED HERE.
Apr 29, 2020 · In his memoir The Unexpected Professor, he recalls that he spent the second half of the 1960s working his way through Victorian literature, writing the chapters on Renaissance prose for Christopher Ricks’s history of English-language literature, translating and annotating De Doctrina Cristiana for Yale University Press’s Milton’s project ...
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Having gained his doctorate in 1960, he became a fellow and tutor in English first at Keble and then, from 1964, at St John’s. In 1975, he was elected Merton Professor of English Literature. He held this post until he retired in 2002.
John Carey. Sunday March 08 2020, 12.01am, The Sunday Times. I was taken by surprise at first. The suggestion, politely phrased, was that I should write a history of poetry — not just...
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Mar 30, 2014 · A t the very beginning of John Carey's enjoyable ramble through his life as a scholar, critic, literary prize judge, writer and professor, he admits that at first he wanted to write a history...
reviewer of literature, John Carey has never taken a cautious, traditional approach to his material. I became aware of him first in the pages of Ian Hamilton’s briefly flourishing the new reviewwhen Hamilton provided Carey with a book of tributes to the Oxford classicist Maurice Bowra on which he was invited to expend his wit.
