VARIOUS by John Simon

A popular miscalculation in my view is the notion of a first and last in literature. Presumably to enhance their subject's importance, scholars and critics have made out a writer to be the first or last of a kind. The problem is that no sooner is someone proclaimed the first, someone else comes up with an earlier specimen; and hardly has someone been pronounced a last, than somebody produces a later specimen. But wha…

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