Barely a blip on the national media scene, who have no use for dead white men and their brilliant observations on the superiority of western civilization and the modern age and standard of living that they created. Sad.
What’s worse, he wasn’t a stodgy conservative...he absolutely was NOT a Republican, either. He often had very modernistic and sort of strange/cool Freudian insights to literature. But make no mistake: he was fully conversant with and completely revered the western literary tradition and he knew it forwards and backwards.