Years ago, the imaginative thinker ...

Years ago, the imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writer and essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) would treat readers of the now departed Saturday Review to a one- or two-page reconsideration of a literary classic--everything from The Epic of Gilgamesh, in consequence of the Greeks, onward to Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, and ending with Kafka, Ford Madox Ford, and William Carlos Williams.
These awful essays, in which Rexroth tied the classics to new life, were collected in couple volumes, Classics Revisited (the name of the series) and More Classics Revisited. Rexroth's essay was the first thing I move rounded to ...