Steve Schwartz wrote:

>How many people in the entire country have read even someone as well
>known as Galway Kinnell or Anna Akhmatova?

At the risk of appearing to be a philistine: who?

>How many people have seen a painting by David Hockney or
>Julian Freud, let alone Turner or Constable?

Well, I've seen numerous works by all of the above.  Does this
compensate for me not knowing who Kinnell or Akhmatova are?

Frank Wales [[log in to unmask]]