Original, passionate, lucid
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This is a great slim book not so much answering the question Why of its title but making that question deep and difficult. Nutall is direct, firm, no-nonsense, and competent in the rarest and best sense, going where he needs to go, and knowing as much as any expert about the topics which he finds himself addressing. So in considering Aristotle's Poetics, he knows what most critics don't: what Aristotle says in the Politics and the Rhetoric and elsewhere. And he knows Dr. Johnson and Shakespeare and Beckett just as well. A gem of a book.
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