Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Denis Donoghue
![Denis Donoghue](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: December 1, 1928
Died: April 6, 2021 (aged 92)
Bio: Denis Donoghue was an Irish literary critic. He was the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University.
Known for:
- Speaking of beauty (2003)
- On Eloquence (2007)
- The practice of reading (1998)
- Metaphor (2014)
- Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot (2000)