Mark Knopfler is interviewed by Michael Parkinson on Parkinson, originally telecast by the BBC in 2000:
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Archives for June 17, 2020
Almanac: George Saintsbury on the test of good criticism
“I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog’s-ear place of these pages the warning, ‘Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.’”
George Saintsbury, A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day