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![]() ![]() The novels of Gilbert Cannan “Has anyone, for example, considered bringing out some of Gilbert Cannan’s novels? Praised by Henry James, dismissed by D.H. Holroyd proceeds to review a number of writers and books worthy of at least the same attention from publishers and readers as the “plethora of books about Conrad, Lawrence, and the rest”–those whose work has “become a canonical part of English literature at the universities.” Despite the occasional resurrection, such as that of the works of Jean Rhys in the late 1960s, however, “The majority of forgotten writers are sunk without a trace.” “All of us, probably, have some favorite unfashionable author,” wrote acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd in this article from the same issue of The American Scholar as its second feature on neglected books. ![]() The American Scholar, Volume 39, Number 2 (Spring 1970) ![]()
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