The daisy-chain effect

The Spectator | September 25, 1999| | Copyright

THE FABER BOOK OF WRITERS ON WRITERS

edited by Sean French Faber, 20, pp. 216

In his introduction to this book Sean French does a rather charming and clever thing. Beginning with Jonson's slightly less than idolatrous encomium to Shakespeare, he traces, via 15 vertical degrees of separation, a lineage of literary encounters from the 17th to the 20th century. Thus Jonson himself went on to meet the second Viscount Falkland, who met the Earl of Clarendon, who met Dryden, who met Congreve, who met Voltaire, who met Boswell, who met the academic Eric Blair, who met the poet Samuel Rogers, who ...

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