Kingsbury is fascinated by the breeders who have brought out the variety from the wild plant, allotting scrupulous, well-told essays to each of them.
Although she has no blockbuster Bard thesis to prove, her introduction is an exemplary account of what is known about Shakespeare and how his work has been read and regarded through the centuries, while the individual essays display scrupulous and subtle close reading.
His dismissal is puzzling given Lum McCunn's scrupulous account of her authorial decisions in her essay "Reclaiming Polly Bemis," an academic treatment of the same subject.
He has always been scrupulous in avoiding what he calls in the same 2007 essay the "public, general, nationalised idiom".
One thing you learn from Ms. Nordström's revealing catalog essay, however, is that he was not as scrupulous about the facts as photojournalists are expected to be today.
Diego Gambetta's 1999 essay, "Primo Levi's Last Moments," from the Boston Review, offers a scrupulous handling of the facts surrounding Levi's death.
The accounting is scrupulous.
His twice-weekly essays for The Rambler (1750 52), for instance, consistently show his powers at their fullest stretch, handling an impressive array of literary and moral topics with a scrupulous intellectual gravity and attentiveness.
He also published three volumes of essays, The Lords of Limit, The Enemy's Country, and Style and Faith (all included in the Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill, 2008), which are object lessons in the importance of scrupulous reading, and equally scrupulous writing.
