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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Wretched Reviews!

Thursday December 2, 2004
Here's a bit of fun - a small collection of the heavy-handed criticism leveled against classic works:

"... as unacquainted with art as a hog is with mathematics."
The London Critic review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Wretched, indeed! Cause to disregard and banish book reviewers as a species, p'raps?

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