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‘Tchekhov is dead; therefore we may now speak freely of him...’Lev Shestov The critic John Middleton Murry marked the first anniversary of the death of his wife, Katherine Mansfield, with a notoriously bad poem, which he published in his own magazine Adelphi in January 1924. ‘Was she not a child’, the elegy asked, ‘A child of other worlds, a perfect thing/ Vouchsafed to justify this world’s imagining?’ In casting Mansfield, a short story writer who died young of tuberculosis, as a ‘perfect th... |
