Thanks so much y'all.
This gives me plenty to start.
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Thanks so much y'all.
This gives me plenty to start.
Great. Thank you so much!
No, I don't want to read those Mythologies you mentioned last. I'm sure they are great, but I think I'll go for the originals.
Having said that, your list is...
Ive been wanting to read Sir Walter Scott for a long time. This year is that year I think. After I read Ivanhoe I will be happy.
Besides that, I have a small bookcase of books (I'm away from...
I'm finally starting to read Shakespeare. Iv'e read some of his plays before, but Iv'e never spent so much time, and tried so hard to understand, as now. Ive also been spending a lot of time with The...
Pierre is right. One should not restrict oneself to these only. Everyman and Modern Library (as noted) are both superior and then Iv'e been buying a lot of Library of America editions lately. There...
Please, I've finally decided to go into her deeply (I've only read a few poems here and there), but what is the best edition of her poetry to buy?!
Thank you!
Lykren, I was kidding. Actually, I was hoping for some kind of response since I am interested in the topic myself.
Unfortunately, I am not of much help. (As with you, I have not yet read...
What are you talking about?! No one cares about Melville. Anyway, this belongs in the poetry section.
What is that your signature?! "If not, winter"?
If there is another thread, I have not seen it. That is, one on literature of the Pacific Islands. I would like to group Filipino and Papua New Guinean literature here as well since the literature of...
Mal: I made the observation that Dickens is very pre-modern as a suggesting that that is why he was being bruised in some of the previous posts. I must now make that sentiment explicit when I...
There was no one here that put Dickens second after Shakespeare. There are many that do just this though. Nevertheless, most, probably, would rate Hardy higher, despite Dickens' enduring popularity....
Of Corse. "When one cannot see through a thing, one must needs to look over it."
I cannot agree with the last post (though from what I have read of Dickens, it seems that his wife was indeed...
Without trying to find examples, I keep hitting more. Since your books have not yet come I have turned to others. I started reading Mardi, and two books on the French and Indian War. With the war,...
Morpheus, I dislike that to my soul. We are very different in that regard. I like my 'deep blue' to be impenetrably thick, and I like the worldviews religions present (with stories explained or no)....
I did not know that that story was so well known. I had heard it from my math teacher and thought quite highly of that strategy. But it makes sense. When many of the methods are viewed bare bones,...
Hill's earlier works were much more logically, much more classically, developed in terms of sentence structure. Hill plays so much with the language in Clavics that it is hard to find a method, even,...
Like you, I have a wide variety of interests. I don't know that I have really went deeply enough into anything to really experience this law though; when I do see the same thing twice, it is usually...
Maybe I just can get some of these (I'll still wait though, I think). The Introduction to Poetry by Kenneth and Gioia is $4.76 including shipping (12th not the newer 13th edition). Should I get it?...
Ah! by the way, I read Clavics today. Clocking in at ~40 pages, I finished it is less than an hour. I'm not sure what to think of it though.
Completely overwhelming, but thank you so, so much. I am so grateful for your help. I want to buy some of those introductions to poetry that you wrote about in the thread you linked, but I don't want...
I don't care so much where Melville would go on the list, but he is certainly a much better poet than Henry David Thoreau. Iv'e read all of Thoreau's poems and he is just not as good as Melville. I...
For sure. Thanks again for all the choices, the two I picked I think I'll really like (and the variety enabled me to do this). I have a good feeling they wont disappoint. I also liked your list, and...
ok. ok. ok. You got me. Thanks for insisting. I'll get The Lowell and Stevens books listed and look into buying a volume of Roethke some time later. Your comparison of Wordsworth and Shakespeare is...
Iv'e read to build a fire in school too. I don't remember. But your plot ends exactly like the movie "The Grey". There is a short story by the same name by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers. I haven't read it.
Thanks for comparing Pound with Wordsworth. I quite like Wordsworth, but then I have only read 100 or so of his best poems, and I know his reputation for writing bad poetry. And, at any rate, I...