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Category: John Sutherland

  • "To the Virtuous Woman I Desperately Want to Screw but Don’t Want to Marry"

    In 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know (2010), John Sutherland uses Andrew Marvell’s poem “To his Coy Mistress” to illustrate the idea of ‘double bind’ (pp. 132-135). Had we but world enough timethis coyness, lady, were no crime. […] But…

  • Literary criticism doesn’t matter any more — Where did it all go wrong?

    In his article “So you ‘like’ Hamlet? Sorry, that’s not good enough” in today’s Times (see here), John Sutherland mentions that in the last years of Frank Kermode‘s life, one of the questions that vexed him was ‘Why doesn’t literary criticism…

  • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    In his latest book 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know, John Sutherland says this about Hamlet: “Every age interprets the play’s enigmas differently, sometimes wildly so (is Hamlet mad, enquired Oscar Wilde; or merely the critics of Hamlet?).…