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Review of Book: Listen to the Word: Commentaries on Selected Opening Prayers of Sundays and Feasts with Sample Homilies

unique personalities, however much they are formed by their environment. In the end, it remains difficult to speak of a legacy of Jerome beyond his writings, and evidence of continuity of approach with immediately succeeding generations is equally elusive. Williams goes so far in her concluding remarks as to speak of a 'failure of imagination' on Jerome's part. He was, indeed, 'his own life's work, one for which the mold was to be broken in the century immediately following his death' [265). It is at this point that the sociological context is renewed, and only in this mode does Williams become a little obscure. Having suggested that Jerome is of more than merely antiquarian interest, she returns us to the present: in our own culture, apparently, 'the relations of elite education to the dispositions it inculcates, to the delimitation of the proper objects of criticism, and to the pleasures of the text are profoundly troubled' [265]. What she is saying, in effect, is that in following Jerome's example too closely by denying ourselves the possibility of reading for pleasure, we risk not only imposing our own limits on the canon of literature, but also, and more insidiously, we allow the abdication of the power to choose what can and should be read. Whatever conclusions one draws from this for the future, one has to admire Megan Hale Williams's exposition of a key figure of our literary and cultural past.