“Not literature of course — oh, dear no! But I am philistine enough to prefer it to modern hysterics. What a swing and fire ‘Horatius’ has, what dramatic intensity from first to last.
How can man die better than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?
Callaghan’s idea of ‘Literature’ seems to be to photograph a latrine or pigsty meticulously and have nothing else in the picture.
