I'll be giving it a look since I like your other work. Shame I ran across this post nine years too late. I'm currently reading your Girart de Vienne.
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I'll be giving it a look since I like your other work. Shame I ran across this post nine years too late. I'm currently reading your Girart de Vienne.
To anyone who cares to know, Michael Newth is...
Speaking of which, my new copies of The ABCs of Reading and The Spirit of Romance came in the mail yesterday. I think it was in one of those that he said that.
I haven't read their specific remarks on the topic but it was a common thought of the time. The modern novel was relatively new in the west, only becoming popular in the1700s or so. Guys like Daniel...
Thomas Becket was the friend of king Henry II. He was a crony of sorts and when Henry made him Lord Chancellor he often sided with Henry in disputes with wealthy aristocrats. But when he made Becket...
Speaking as a novice, I have a hard enough time drawing an arm to look like an arm or writing a poem with the proper number of syllables in it. I'll worry more about the content once I can master the...
I reread Huckleberry Finn a year or two ago. While it used to be one of my favorite novels, it no longer is. I'd go with Moby Dick or The Great Gatsby right now.
Censorship by progressives has been a growing problem in recent years. It's gotten very bad on social media like youtube, facebook, and twitter especially.
Dang, I really liked him. He wrote that book The Western Canon with that great list of classic books to read. He was a great advocate for traditional standards in education and culture. I used to...
When I think of great dialog I think playwrights like Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard, Eugene O'Neil, Tony Kushner, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, James Goldman, Paddy Chayefsky, Oscar Wilde, etc.
I put together a brief history of comedy a few years ago:
423BC Aristophanes writes Clouds
422BC Aristophanes writes Wasps
421BC Aristophanes writes Peace
414BC Aristophanes writes Birds
411BC...
1.Moby Dick
2.The Great Gatsby
3.For Whom the Bell Tolls
4.The Scarlet Letter
5.The Grapes of Wrath
6.The Call of the Wild
7.Catch-22
8.Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
9.On the Road
10.The...
Haven't read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde but I hated Dracula and Frankenstein. I'm not really a fan of monster fiction, but of all the ones I've read, I think I liked "I Am Legend", "Interview With A...
Like JBI said, illustration was the norm throughout history until recent times. In medieval times many manuscripts were illuminated. Even in the 19th century artists like Gustave Dore made some...
Songs that could stand as poetry
Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Leonard Cohen- Bird On a Wire
Neil...
The urge to consume probably doesn't come from the same place as the urge to create, but at some level I'd imagine that every author was trying to create their own favorite book; so that they could...
I didn't like Heart of Darkness at first and put it down for a few years. When I picked it up again I loved it.
Funniest of those: Catch-22, Huckleberry Finn, plays of Aristophanes, The Farce of Sodom.
423BC Aristophanes writes Clouds
422BC Aristophanes writes Wasps
421BC Aristophanes writes Peace
414BC Aristophanes writes Birds
411BC Aristophanes writes Lysistrata
411BC Aristophanes writes...
I liked Walcott and Berry.
Yeah, but that's not flowery in the least. It's calculated rhetoric with balanced antithetical clauses. It's got the same beats and structure as the opening of A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens:
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If I recall correctly, Euphues isn't flowery. It's bombastic.
I wouldn't really call any of those guys flowery. Steele and Addison might have been prone to some rhetorical flourish, (it's been so long, I don't properly remember) but that's not exactly the same...
I'm not sure it's good for beginners, but when I read Italian literature in translation I read Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's Decameron, Petrarch's Canzoniere, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's...
For Homer, Virgil, and Aeschylus you can't do better than either Fagles or Fitzgerald. Sophocles I'd go with the Fitzgerald translations. For Ovid, I go with the Humphries. Whatever you do, steer...
You should probably read the complete Greek plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. There are about 37 Shakespearean plays and about 45 ancient Greek plays but the overall quality...