Updike's Essays and Criticism
John Updike, at the age of 75, has just published his sixth collection of essays and criticism entitled Due Considerations. He is truly a well-rounded man of letters. He is a novelist, short story writer and a poet of some note. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and has been considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to all of these talents he is a masterful essayist & critic. He is a true wunderkind in so many areas that one wonders at his ability to keep up what is already an astonishing output. I have read all of his previous critical works and I think his work as a critic stands comparison with anyone writing today. He is sage, judicious and generous in his criticism as well as omnivorous.
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