tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post3992057576506529836..comments2023-11-27T03:48:51.986-05:00Comments on Howard Pyle: “The Doll Has Goitre” and Other Criticisms of Howard PyleIan Schoenherrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04906881923887306477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-90851802183286143822011-06-23T09:51:57.694-04:002011-06-23T09:51:57.694-04:00Well, it was a pretty verbose era (even compared t...Well, it was a pretty verbose era (even compared to this one) - and the letter appeared in the Times’ “Saturday Review of Books and Art” - which had room for such discourse.<br /><br />"The King himself hauled me out of gaol" is great in so many ways and is certainly my favorite of the bunch (with Villon and "Her whisper was so soft” vying for second place). And it must have been Ian Schoenherrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04906881923887306477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613902890681868820.post-41787239229041713442011-06-22T21:32:38.976-04:002011-06-22T21:32:38.976-04:00David Mamet once said of critics that when they cr...David Mamet once said of critics that when they criticize, they know so little about the actual craft of writing plays that they can't actually help the author in his work. The criticism isn't constructive. <br /><br />And praise, which by its nature contains no information that would improve the author, is equally useless.<br /><br />That said, some of the points in this critique are kev ferrarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509572970616136990noreply@blogger.com