Forests: The Shadow of Civilization

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Beautiful and impressive, but quite a reading to tackle - I was assigned portions of Forests for a research writing class. The writing is just beautiful, the work as a whole is nearly overwhelming. The discussion on Walden in the fifth chapter is not to be missed. Overall an incredible example of literary criticism, almost out of place among current literature, but much welcomed and thoroughly appreciated.

luminous - My old Cambridge tutor said that the only works of modern literary criticism he d sell his shirt for were *Seven Types of Ambiguity* and *The Wheel of Fire*. For a long time I agreed. Then I read *Forests*. It is quite simply the most profound, the most moving, the best-written, the most important work of literary criticism of the late twentieth century.

luminous - My old Cambridge tutor said that the only works of modern literary criticism he d sell his shirt for were *Seven Types of Ambiguity* and *The Wheel of Fire*. For a long time I agreed. Then I read *Forests*. It is quite simply the most profound, the most moving, the best-written, the most important work of literary criticism of the late twentieth century.