--- one of the main problems of the revival is that we haven't attracted critics of any great note. Literature had Leavis, Tillyard and Wilson Knight - we had Karl Dallas and Colin Irwin. Both nice guys apparently - but neither of them inclined to challenge whatever load of balls singers were talking that week - at least not in print --- WLD 4 Oct 07 03.53

Let me belatedly and immodestly say that an incomplete picture is provided here.

-Michael Grosvenor Myer- sometime regular columnist for Folk Review; folk record, concert, festival critic, The Guardian; folk book critic, The Times = &c &c &c — 'Not to know me argues yourself unknown' (Shakespeare)