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Alastair Fowler

Alastair David Shaw Fowler (1930 – 9 October 2022) was a Scottish literary critic and editor.

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"A great teacher and a great writer need not be an efficient supervisor."

- Alastair Fowler

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"we could do a great deal worse than look back across the drift to the great reader Lewis. We need to try to recall what literature was; what it meant, and can still mean, to grasp literary works in memory."

- Alastair Fowler

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