Clark and the Cambridge-based literary scholar Howard Erskine-Hill debated American literary scholars, chiefly Donald Greene and Howard Weinbrot, in two successive volumes of The Age of Johnson (Volumes 7 and 8) and an issue of Studies in English Literature.
Academic critic Clark and his colleague from Cambridge, literary scholar Howard Erskine-Hill, engaged in debates with prominent American scholars, mainly Donald Greene and Howard Weinbrot, which were published in two volumes of The Age of Johnson (Volumes 7 and 8) and a special issue of Studies in English Literature.