I thought Gravity's Rainbow was brilliant, but I never especially liked his writing. I found it very cold.
That's interesting. Perhaps I respond to "cold" writing, though I'm not sure what precisely the term names.
Jonson. Milton. Rochester. Pope. Johnson. Austen. Wordsworth. Dickens. Browning. James. Yeats (but not Lake Isle). Pound. Moore. Woolf.
I dunno.
Carrol