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Billy Joel: Alternative Criteria to Contempt
Auden wrote in ''The Dyer's Hand'' - and I paraphrase because I don't have a copy at hand -- that the artist's subject is life, therefore the artist is always humbled by his subject because he knows that no matter how hard he tries, he will not do it justice; the critic's subject is a book (or songs, in this case), therefore the critic will always ...
Posted to The Spectator by ChuckJMcMahon on January 26, 2009