I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
“I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.”
“In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.”