[Vwoolf] "The Pelican Guide to English Literature"

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

A modest proposal.

Some interesting discussion in this thread.

In this electronic age it should be possible for someone to create a 
webpage on which critics confess to "things I regret having written in 
publications." I have quite a few entries I'd like to make myself, 
including in criticism of Woolf. Perhaps there should be such a webpage 
for every major writer. Various titles are possible: "Mea Culpa: 
Virginia," or "Sackcloth & Ashes: Woolf," for example.

I remember that several years ago, one of the journals dedicated to the 
fiction of Joseph Conrad published a number in which major critics of 
his work commented on what they had written decades earlier, noting what 
they thought they had got right and what they had got wrong, or ignored, 
and discussed developments in Conrad criticism since then. An idea for 
Woolf studies perhaps?

Jeremy H