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“I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails . . . I don’t think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones. I would rather watch a great tennis player than a mediocre one . . . Consequently, most of the human race doesn’t matter much to me, outside the normal and necessary frame of courtesy and the obligation to respect human rights. I see no reason to squirm around apologizing for this. I am, after all, a cultural critic, and my main job is to distinguish the good from the second-rate.”
What does /lit/ think of Robert Hughes?
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shit poet. riding off plath's coattails however shitty hers were
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>i like good things
woah
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>>7991299
>not being an elitist in the social sense
Nothing to be proud of, tbqh.
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>>7991309
Basically.
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>>7991308
Ted Hughes not Robert.
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>>7991299
My favourite works of his were "The Fatal Shore" a history of the convict origins of Australia. His history of Rome was also excellent
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>>7991299
This quote makes him sound like a pretentious shit head.
His fans also sound like shit heads:
"I described him in the Guardian once as writing the English of Shakespeare, Milton, Macaulay and Dame Edna Everage; Hughes enjoyed the description. His prose was lithe, muscular and fast as a bunch of fives. He was incapable of writing the jargon of the art world, and consequently was treated by its mandarins with fear and loathing. Much he cared."
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>>7991299
I loved his biography on Goya. I've been meaning to read more of his work.
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>>7991299
He sounds like your typical /lit/izen, except with actual talent.
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>>7991706
The quote makes him sound correct, and this post makes you sound triggered.
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>>7991766
dubs of truth oust tumblrina
Good shit
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