THE PROSE FACTORY

'Taste takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the tas te of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day. And there is the taste of Virginia Woolfs elusive common reader. A taste that in the days of the Victorian reading public was founded on shared standards but now, in the age of Twitter and the blogosphere, is fragmenting into chaos.Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-er a modernists ...[Read more]