Dan Jacobson
Articles by Dan Jacobson
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North America
The monotonous sublime. Dan Jacobson on the New York writer who wanted to be "the Lindbergh, Moses, Siegfried, the Odysseus of America" but ended up a defeated drunk
- 31 March 2003
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Delmore Schwartz Souvenir Press, 202pp, £9.99 ISBN 0811206807
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Against utopia
- 09 December 2002
The Short Sharp Life of T E Hulme Robert Ferguson Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 314pp, £20 ISBN 0713994908
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The big sneeze. Dan Jacobson on the completion of one of the great feats of modern publishing
- 10 June 2002
The Letters of Charles Dickens: volume 12, 1868-1870 Edited by Graham Storey with Margaret Brown Clarendon Press and The British Academy, 813pp, £80 ISBN 0199245967
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Towards arrogant eternity. Philip Larkin is often caricatured as a model of English miserabilism. But for Dan Jacobson he is a writer of grace and mystery, a master of self-division
- 22 October 2001
Further Requirements Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite Faber and Faber, 392pp, £25 ISBN 0571209459
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Bulgarian heroes
- 30 July 2001
The Fragility of Goodness: why Bulgaria's Jews survived the Holocaust Tzvetan Todorov Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 198pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297646702
