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Aug. 6th, 2012 06:28 am39. Astrophil and Stella (2)
40. In Memoriam AHH (2)
41. Beggar's Opera (2)
42. Importance of Being Earnest (N)
43. Gawain and the Green Knight (3)
44. Major Barbara (2)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (2)
46. Death of a Salesman (2)
47. Beowulf (4)
Sidney seemed facile in both the good and bad senses this time, and lets slip that he's a bit of a Machiavellian, and successful, in the love department. Which weirdly makes his sequence feel sincere, despite one's impression of his cavalier personality: as seduction this is often pretty inspired, enough to maybe help if not seal the adulterous deal, whereas as poetry about a soul in love it mostly phones it in.
Prefixing astro to your first name is a bold move even for a humanist pickup artist, though. Points for making it seem fine, too. Smooth guy. Essentially a rapper.
I love a lot of In Memoriam but usually avoid most of it. The Christian parts get really strange, especially in the middle where Tennyson's anticipating Eagleman's Sum (a failed read of last year) in his manic afterlife speculations. But the rest you can't overpraise. Maybe someone's made an Atheist's Cut for ease of revisiting?
Beggar's Opera is cute but pretty much valueless, Earnest I know too well by now to read easily, sad to say (though a few bits surprised me into laughter, like "marry again and marry often"), Gawain is painless in Merwin's version but no favorite of mine.
Major Barbara didn't suffer as much as I feared - it's a neat play, probably more stirring for not making full sense idea-wise. Nice build up to the last few pages, which are mostly aphorism.
Streetcar I love.
Miller is moving, clearly influenced Goodbye Columbus.
Why do people keep making me read Beowulf? The testosterone was a welcome contrast to caregiver life, this time, but I had to give people mental voices to hold my interest. The narrator was John Hurt, some supporting people were Zoidberg, Beowulf himself the "previously on Lost" artificially lowered guy. The last fit well.
Norton's proofreading staff can suck the lead paint out of my underwear. If you have a copy of their 2nd edition Tennyson selection burn it. The last three generations of their tissue anthologies are little better. What happened to that company.
Their Beowulf edition was fine, to be fair. And Heaney does everything mortal wight could with it.
Beowulf and In Memoriam have put my father back in my thoughts. As has my daughter, who sometimes looks like him. Though more often at the moment Putin.
40. In Memoriam AHH (2)
41. Beggar's Opera (2)
42. Importance of Being Earnest (N)
43. Gawain and the Green Knight (3)
44. Major Barbara (2)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (2)
46. Death of a Salesman (2)
47. Beowulf (4)
Sidney seemed facile in both the good and bad senses this time, and lets slip that he's a bit of a Machiavellian, and successful, in the love department. Which weirdly makes his sequence feel sincere, despite one's impression of his cavalier personality: as seduction this is often pretty inspired, enough to maybe help if not seal the adulterous deal, whereas as poetry about a soul in love it mostly phones it in.
Prefixing astro to your first name is a bold move even for a humanist pickup artist, though. Points for making it seem fine, too. Smooth guy. Essentially a rapper.
I love a lot of In Memoriam but usually avoid most of it. The Christian parts get really strange, especially in the middle where Tennyson's anticipating Eagleman's Sum (a failed read of last year) in his manic afterlife speculations. But the rest you can't overpraise. Maybe someone's made an Atheist's Cut for ease of revisiting?
Beggar's Opera is cute but pretty much valueless, Earnest I know too well by now to read easily, sad to say (though a few bits surprised me into laughter, like "marry again and marry often"), Gawain is painless in Merwin's version but no favorite of mine.
Major Barbara didn't suffer as much as I feared - it's a neat play, probably more stirring for not making full sense idea-wise. Nice build up to the last few pages, which are mostly aphorism.
Streetcar I love.
Miller is moving, clearly influenced Goodbye Columbus.
Why do people keep making me read Beowulf? The testosterone was a welcome contrast to caregiver life, this time, but I had to give people mental voices to hold my interest. The narrator was John Hurt, some supporting people were Zoidberg, Beowulf himself the "previously on Lost" artificially lowered guy. The last fit well.
Norton's proofreading staff can suck the lead paint out of my underwear. If you have a copy of their 2nd edition Tennyson selection burn it. The last three generations of their tissue anthologies are little better. What happened to that company.
Their Beowulf edition was fine, to be fair. And Heaney does everything mortal wight could with it.
Beowulf and In Memoriam have put my father back in my thoughts. As has my daughter, who sometimes looks like him. Though more often at the moment Putin.
