The Hidden Reader

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“Brombert’s major concern is how authors ‘read’ each other and their own sensibilities; he is further interested in ‘literary mediation and the gap between text and event.’ Investigating the complexities of these issues, he offers interpretations of key 19th-century authors, focusing on their central themes and stances. The final essay, on T. S. Eliot’s misreading of Baudelaire and condemnation of the romantic ‘heresy,’ calls for a critical reevaluation of romanticism, a project already begun here. This is knowledgeable, elegant, even mandarin criticism.”—Richard Kuczkowski, Library Journal