Criticism
Calling Kingsolver a master of “Calamity Writing” in The New Republic, Lee Siegel wrote that she offers “the mere appearance of goodness as a substitute for honest art.” He also characterized her as an “easy, humorous, competent, syrupy writer has been elevated to the ranks of the greatest political novelists of our time.”
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“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
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