Quote:
|
but he is writing for a national newspaper
|
Shippey is writing for the Times which is also a national newspaper.
I've no problem with a reviewer saying the book's mass-market targeting might be misguided given rather scholarly niche of the subject matter. However, when he starts trying to give a literary response to the poetry the it becomes rather painful:
Quote:
|
Thanks to the rhythm you can hear the approaching horses.
|
I've seen better from 14-year-olds.
And then...
Quote:
|
It is some kind of achievement to bulk up the equivalent of 500 Twitter messages to 377 pages but there is no disguising the fact that everyone involved is simply flogging a dead Norse.
|
What the hell has Twitter got to do with anything?