The Alice companion Book

Literary criticism was so readable in the 60s! My God!

Though I guess it helps that this was a book devoted to literary criticism of genre fiction that was written in the 1960s, which probably causes some selective pressure in terms of what the contributors would be like.

Of course my favorite paper is the one by the Romantic poetry expert, but I did feel as though most of them, even the ones about Williams, whom I've never read, had something inspiring in them. Even the Epilogue was good where it quoted from Lewis on Joy.

The rest of the Epilogue. . .

I mean, I have reason to believe that the 70s was when literary criticism stopped being so readable, anyway, even if that wasn't quite the way I was expecting it to become less readable.