[Mark] Twain himself took it on the chin from fellow Southerner William Faulkner, who called him a “hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven ‘sure fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”Ha!
2.05.2010
Cat fight: Faulkner and Twain edition
Writers are filled with haterade, reader types. Example?
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Lord Byron liked to refer to William Wordsworth as "Turdsworth"
ReplyDeleteYou should have heard the things Twain said about Hawthorne!
ReplyDeleteI love it when the criticism matches the level of what is being criticized.
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