Flagged up on Arts and Letters Daily:
(cracking site)
Among many others, found this piece interesting:
Poets' Puffery
By JEFFREY H. GRAY
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=lgpr5t1c6f9r0prghwmp5ytxyds9tmn...
"Perhaps, in a culture of hyperbole, a certain
value fatigue sets in, and one longs for deflation as a correction."
Hmmmmn? !
