ENDPOINT And Other Poems By John Updike, Knopf. 97 pp. $25 John Updike's prose could sometimes seem so coldly beautiful, so self-aware, that critics occasionally questioned its effectiveness in fiction. Such verbal dandyism, it was thought, actually short-circuited the reading experience: Updike'... -
Does Updike's Last Verse Hit Its Mortal Mark? Plainly.
ENDPOINT And Other Poems By John Updike, Knopf. 97 pp. $25 John Updike's prose could sometimes seem so coldly beautiful, so self-aware, that critics occasionally questioned its effectiveness in fiction. Such verbal dandyism, it was thought, actually short-circuited the reading experience: Updike'...-
By Michael Dirda