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Probably the highest praise I can give Clive James is that I never pick up one of his books without wanting to go and read someone else.
He writes about his heroes (and even his enemies) with so much empathy and enthusiasm that I'm driven to find out what I've been missing.
Going through Cultural Amnesia this was an extensive but not an expensive problem. He writes, mostly, about writers, and about writers of the mid-twentieth Century all the way back to Homer. The only place you'd probably find the disparate group together is on Project Guttenburg, or on the Amazon Kindle versions of the out of copyright.
So I've ended up with some very obscure title indeed, either for free or for a matter of pennies.
Unfortunately I'm now reading his Poetry Notebook, which isn't a colection of his poetry, but a collection of his recent writing about peoetry.
As usual I've been taking notes on who I want to go off and read, but it's all getting out of hand. I thought I'd found a short-cut with his praise of Larkin's anthology of 20th Centrury English Verse, but the buggering think isn't on Kindle.
I've ordered the hardback, but I'd like to have something equally chunky, and hopefully equally representative, on my Kindle.
Does anyone have any suggestions for an anthology I can carry everywhere with me?
He writes about his heroes (and even his enemies) with so much empathy and enthusiasm that I'm driven to find out what I've been missing.
Going through Cultural Amnesia this was an extensive but not an expensive problem. He writes, mostly, about writers, and about writers of the mid-twentieth Century all the way back to Homer. The only place you'd probably find the disparate group together is on Project Guttenburg, or on the Amazon Kindle versions of the out of copyright.
So I've ended up with some very obscure title indeed, either for free or for a matter of pennies.
Unfortunately I'm now reading his Poetry Notebook, which isn't a colection of his poetry, but a collection of his recent writing about peoetry.
As usual I've been taking notes on who I want to go off and read, but it's all getting out of hand. I thought I'd found a short-cut with his praise of Larkin's anthology of 20th Centrury English Verse, but the buggering think isn't on Kindle.
I've ordered the hardback, but I'd like to have something equally chunky, and hopefully equally representative, on my Kindle.
Does anyone have any suggestions for an anthology I can carry everywhere with me?
