Alastair Fowler

Alastair David Shaw Fowler (1930 – 9 October 2022) was a Scottish literary critic and editor.

Quotes

• A great teacher and a great writer need not be an efficient supervisor.
• we could do a great deal worse than look back across the drift to the great reader Lewis. We need to try to recall what literature was; what it meant, and can still mean, to grasp literary works in memory.
  • C. S. Lewis: Supervisor (October 2003)