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Celebrated Critic Frank Kermode Dies Aged 90

Posted at 5:48PM Wednesday 18 Aug 2010

Widely acclaimed as Britain's foremost literary critic, Sir Frank Kermode died yesterday in Cambridge at the age of 90.

The London Review of Books, for which the critic and scholar wrote more than 200 pieces, announced his death this morning. Kermode inspired the founding of the magazine in 1979, after writing an article in the Observer calling for a new literary magazine.

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Full Obituary in The Guardian

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