I'm interested in advertising a budding forum on literature which currently has 75 followers. I wanted to know, would there be a proper place to advertise this new forum on The Literature Network? I...
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I'm interested in advertising a budding forum on literature which currently has 75 followers. I wanted to know, would there be a proper place to advertise this new forum on The Literature Network? I...
This reminds me of Aristotle's definition of virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics. The two definitions are fairly similar. I wonder if Balthasar was inspired by it. I have to agree with this concept of...
The Epicureans sure thought so. They thought that the most meaningful forms of pleasure were those that were also the most secure - the least easy to be lost. For this reason they held philosophy to...
Forget the morality aspect; think about the plot as a certain dish served to the public. Would it have been edible had Nabokov allowed H.H. and Dolores to thrive as a couple? Do you think the liberal...
I don't think Nabokov took such a militant approach as you portray it in preempting the criticism for his theme. The book itself is how he tests the acceptability of taboo in art. What's amazing is...
Wow, thanks Petrarch's Love! Tintern Abbey truly does "merge with nature", as you say. What a fitting subject for a poem that praises nature.
I'd like to raise one question before I sign off -...
good titles...
This Side of Paradise
The Great Gatsby
For Esme - With Love and Squalor
Catcher in the Rye
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Room with a View
Lolita
Hamlet
Thanks, kiki. I just picked up this translation from the bookstore yesterday.
I am about to read The Count of Monte Cristo and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good translation. Also I'd like to know which is the most critically acclaimed translation, which is the...
Definitely - Wordsworth's arguments crop up again and again in history. When I came upon the line in the Preface where Wordsworth explains his desire to depict the low and rustic life, noting the...
At the same time that Wordsworth is reacting against the last two centuries of verse, I believe there is also a nostalgia present in his poetry, which might seem at the first paradoxical....
Ah, thank you so much OrphanPip. I am off to a chess tournament right now, but I hope to make a post later tonight or tomorrow.
The purpose of this thread is to create a discussion setting for the study of the Romantics. To allow for an organized and effective discussion we will be imposing the following structure:
1) The...
Okay, I will create the thread in a couple hours when I get off from work. I'll announce you as the first discussion leader, though if someone else expresses ardent interest you may pass the torch if...
There will be a discussion leader for each poet, per Quark's suggestion, and this leader will make all the selections for that poet.
Right now I'm waiting on someone to volunteer for Wordsworth.
Oh, okay, I see. Then I'm also in agreement with your order. I think this will also help prevent Coleridge from being overshadowed by Wordsworth.
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When I get home (I'm at work right now...
Okay, that sounds like a good idea. I trust others' experience over my own in this matter. If we address the Big Six, and only the Big Six, then perhaps we could elect up to six different leaders to...
Wow, quite a collection! I will find this list handy next time I go to the library :-)
I think it would also be worthwhile to read their predecessors, such as Thomas Gray and Alexander Pope, to see where they are coming from, and how they are diverging.
I will make the thread...
Hm, what qualifies as a book club on these forums? My only points of reference are the Book of the Month and the Summer Reading book clubs, where books are decided democratically. There seems to be...
Would there be any interest in forming a book club on the Romantic poets of the early 19th century?
i.e. "The Big Six" (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, and Shelley)
I am thinking about reading him next. What do you think of him? I read on Wikipedia that he was quoted for saying "I am in the front row of second-raters" or something like that. While it proves him...
Anyone watch it? I am watching it without subtitles so I am having some difficulty understanding it. So far I've watched only two or three episodes of the first season. If other viewers of this show...
"Miss Schlegel, the real things' money and all the rest is a dream."
"You're still wrong. You've forgotten Death."
Leonard could not understand.
"If we lived for ever what you say would be...
Oh I didn't realize that there already is such a thread. http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17236
Mods, please delete this thread.