Review of Benediction (2021) by Mark Feeney for Boston Globe — 02 Jun 2022
Benediction has at least three things in common with its immediate predecessor, “A Quiet Passion” (2016). Both are biographies of poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Emily Dickinson, respectively. Both are suffused with great feeling.
And despite having much to recommend them, both don’t really work.
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This review of Benediction (2021) was written by Mark Feeney and published by Boston Globe on 02 June 2022.
Benediction has generally received positive reviews.
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