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In the war between the critics and "Team Walt," I side emphatically with the critics.
The Poetry Book Society, which awards the prize, said: "This year's TS Eliot prize highlights a (some would say) rare moment of agreement between the critics and the booksellers as to what constitutes great poetry".
To the Editor: Your editorial tries to draw a direct line between the critics of the Justice Department lawyers who represented terrorism suspects while in private practice and the followers of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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However, the relationship between the critic and the poet did not go where it seemed to be going.
Especially absorbing is a satiric videotaped conversation from 1977 between the critic Gregory Battcock and Marcia Tucker, the founding director of the New Museum.
In 1970, a verbal brawl broke out between the critic John Simon and the comedian Mort Sahl (neither man renowned for his ability to turn the other cheek).
That said, these books have also highlighted, for me, a crucial gulf between the critic and academic: the problem of The Thesis.
They insist on a sort of glass wall between the critic and the theatre world, so there can be no claim to vested interest.
I recall being made uncomfortable by the production, in part because the play felt slight, given its titanic subject matter: the complex relationship between the critic Kenneth Tynan and that unequivocal theatre animal Orson Welles.
There's no better illustration of Hart's propensity for polarisation than the disparity between the critic's rating (33% fresh) and the audience rating (76% fresh) on collative review site Rotten Tomatoes.
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