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Feb 27, 2014 · John Carey. Photograph: Guardian/Eamonn Mccabe. Literary criticism. This article is more than 10 years old. The Unexpected Professor review – the puzzle of John Carey. Carey is a clever,...
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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.
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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. By Leo Robson.
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Feb 29, 2020 · John Carey: ‘In my teens I fancied myself as a poet’. Tim Adams. The outspoken critic on his new history of poetry, the relevance of authors’ private lives, and why he won’t be going to see the...
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.
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Mar 30, 2014 · Sun 30 Mar 2014 09.30 EDT. 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...
