I Am Naive Enough To Read Incessantly

The Very Best Of All Merwin: I Have Been Reading William Since 1952, And Always With Joy.

I Don't Believe In Myths Of Decline Or Myths Of Progress, Even As Regards The Literary Scene.

We Read To Find Ourselves, More Fully And More Strangely Than Otherwise We Could Hope To Find.

Unless You Have Read And Absorbed The Best That Can Be Read And Absorbed, You Will Not Think Clearly Or Well.

Rebecca Mead's My Life In Middlemarch Is A Wise, Humane, And Delightful Study Of What Some Regard As The Best Novel In English. Mead Has Discovered An Original And Highly Personal Way To Make Herself An Inhabitant Both Of The Book And Of George Eliot's Imaginary City. Though I Have Read And Taught The Book These Many Years I Find Myself Desiring To Go Back To It After Reading Rebecca Mead's Work.