tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post7669618953086594385..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Who will denounce that criminal, Rhyme? - the ridiculous Bysshe VanolisAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-39390831870279245372010-01-31T17:21:55.788-06:002010-01-31T17:21:55.788-06:00Rimbaud? I think so. If I don't get worn out...Rimbaud? I think so. If I don't get worn out, I hope to read, soon, Rimbaud, Corbière, Laforgue, and Mallarmé, plus get a better sense of what Hugo's verse was like. I'm reading Verlaine now and "covered" Nerval and Gautier and Baudelaire last summer. <br /><br />Who am I omitting that I should not? It looks like there's a big enough chronological gap between this group and the next generation - Appolinaire and Valery and the Surrealists and so on - that Mallarmé would be a good place to pause for a while.<br /><br />Advice welcome!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-25409906584747379842010-01-31T04:16:08.598-06:002010-01-31T04:16:08.598-06:00I like Verlaine and not many people read him now. ...I like Verlaine and not many people read him now. Will you be looking at Rimbaud? I do hope so. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on him.litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-68824490120871135742010-01-30T19:10:14.230-06:002010-01-30T19:10:14.230-06:00I think I've mentioned that I count Woolf (the...I think I've mentioned that I count Woolf (the critic) as one of the primary influences on Wuthering Expectations. She takes literature seriously, yet sees the ridiculous side. How about continuing the Woolf readalong with <i>The Second Common Reader</i>, hmm?<br /><br />I hope people like Verlaine, and Mallarmé and so on. There's more on the way here, I predict. I have to cleanse my palate occasionally from that Scottish oatmeal.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-21568571228478770202010-01-29T23:59:25.715-06:002010-01-29T23:59:25.715-06:00You're quite right about Verlaine. Apollinaire...You're quite right about Verlaine. Apollinaire, too, rhymes a good deal and you scarcely notice. And Mallarmé. Lovely stuff.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251983804060081813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-15753924827388003332010-01-29T15:50:53.556-06:002010-01-29T15:50:53.556-06:00Ooh, very nice point about the sublime sometimes r...Ooh, very nice point about the sublime sometimes requiring the ridiculous. As I'm currently taking a break from reading and linking a million Woolf reviews, it seems apropos - she's another one for whom the two ideas were closely linked.<br /><br />As you post more and more fragments of the poem, I realize that the rhyming is actually a lot more varied and complex than I realized at first. It's growing on me...Emilyhttp://www.eveningallafternoon.comnoreply@blogger.com