Craig Raine

Worthy, but wordy

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i>It’s undeniably authentic, but wordy and ponderous. The Nobel prizewinner’s prose may in fact prove more enduring</i></span></p>

  • Miłosz: A Biography

    Andrzej Franaszek

    Belknap / Harvard, pp. 128

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