Frank Kermode taught me how to read Shakespeare, so when I heard the sad news that he had died, I Frank Kermode taught me how to read Shakespeare, so when I heard the sad news that he had died, I went ...

The papers of one of the most important and influential British literary critics of the 20th century have been acquired by the University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Sir Frank Kermode, until this week, was numbered among the most influential of them. His death, at the age of 90, deprives us of a critic who was himself a pleasure to read, despite calling one of his ...

The last great literary critic. By Jonathan Derbyshire My interview with Sir Frank Kermode, which appears in this week’s New Statesman, is now available to read online. I didn’t get the chance to talk ...

The great critic, Frank Kermode, passed away a few days ago at age 90. The obituaries are plenty. The New York Times has a fine one. Kermode was one of the most influential critics of the past 50 ...

When Frank Kermode published his autobiography seven years ago, he called it Not Entitled, a title textured with multiple ironies. In his illustrious career, Kermode has been Lord Northcliffe ...

E.M. Forster’s “Aspects of the Novel” is required reading for students of the genre. Originally delivered in 1927 as the Clark Lectures at Trinity College in Cambridge, the chapters address such ...

Kermode’s publisher, Alan Samson, told The Guardian: He’s probably the greatest literary conversationalist I’ve ever known — it wasn’t just the lectures and the monographs and the books, it’s the fact ...

I met Frank Kermode, who died Tuesday at age 90, more than 20 years ago over coffee at Columbia University, where he was teaching. I had come to propose writing a profile about him, a project that ...

The British critic Frank Kermode wrote “several hundred reviews” for weeklies and monthlies during his lifetime. He regretted them all, he said: “It is, once one begins, all too easy.” How did Kermode ...