In last week’s TLS: the incomparable A. E. Stallings on the incomparable Anne Carson. Stallings captures Carson’s style with an imponderable clause—
Lyrical as a critic, scholarly as a poet
—two meanings in superposition: Carson as lyrical critic and scholarly poet; Carson, as lyrical as a critic, as scholarly as a poet.
This verbal chaos is characteristic…
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