The Washington Post, January 7th, 1996
ROBERTSON DAVIES Man of Myth By Judith Skelton Grant Viking. 787 pp. $35 THE TERRITORY of wonder that Robertson Davies means to reclaim in his marvelous novels dates to the Middle Ages and an outlook long since discarded by civilized folk: "It was a sense of the unfathomable wonder of the invisible world that existed side by side with a hard recognition of the roughness and cruelty and day-to-day demands of the tangible world. It was a readiness to see demons where nowadays we see neuroses, and to see the hand of a guardian angel in what we are apt to shrug off ungratefully as a stroke of lu...
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