Good dinners pass away, so do tyrants and toothacheTerry Eagleton
This article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 7 May 1998 ] John Bayley, Charles Mayo. Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life. Other articles by this contributor: Reach-Me-Down Romantic · For and Against Orwell Newsreel History · Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad In the Gaudy Supermarket · Gayatri Spivak Nudge-Winking · T.S. Eliot’s Politics The Estate Agent · Terry Eagleton spears Stanley Fish Unhoused · anonymity Pork Chops and Pineapples · The Realism of Erich Auerbach Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching · Terry Eagleton lambasts Richard Dawkins |