Dear Paul, humane critic that you are: The link was to Logan's essay in The New Criterion. By contrast, Professor Mezey sent me today a yellowed clipping from the NYT Book Review, in which my great teacher, Robert Penn Warren, remembered his great teacher, J.C. Ransom. There Donald Davies was reviewing the Selected Essays of JCR, his review superimposed above Warren's affectionate memoir, and Davies spoke of JCR's 'mannered prose,' offering praise to those great, vanished critics who had some 'manners.' By contrast, Warren's reflections gave the lie to Yeats' reflection on a man choosing between the life and the work.
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