[78-L] well, no one's ever mourned a critic

[Don Cox]

On 01/03/2013, Philip Carli wrote:

> I wouldn't dispute your own deriving entertainment from his work, but
> I would shy from personally extending it as a general premise. I've
> ploughed through those three volumes, as until recently there's been
> very little easily accessible collected late-Victorian music
> criticism, and found considerable viciousness and pretension rather
> than insight; if he hadn't become a successful playwright ("there's a
> very good word called 'dramatist'", wrote W. S. Gilbert with some
> irritation when he was knighted as a "playwright", but I won't apply
> it to Shaw) his criticism would be buried with Louis Engel's and James
> Davison's, and certainly not given the unmerited weight by historians
> that it has been. I'm not fond of Shaw in any medium except his 1928
> Movietone short film appearance. PC
>
Maybe you were an opera singer in an earlier reincarnation ?   ;-)

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Don Cox
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