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1929–2016 England

Bernard Bergonzi FRSL (13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British poet, literary scholar, critic, and professor of English.

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The writers whom we admire to-day do not appear to love their characters, and the critics who appraise their books show no signs of doing so either. For a writer or critic to show delight in a character would would seem to-day rather naïve, an old-fashioned response left over from the days of Dickens and Surtees. Characters, it seems, are no longer objects of affection.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Bergonzi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.