tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8376555559876012638..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Thomas De Quincey's permanent ephemera - reading 150 year old magazine articlesAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-68877388073830071932008-07-30T07:34:00.000-05:002008-07-30T07:34:00.000-05:00That would be a good time to reread these essays -...That would be a good time to reread these essays - 25 years from now.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2093455419351487142008-07-28T10:58:00.000-05:002008-07-28T10:58:00.000-05:00I read De Quincey 25 years ago. You've got my att...I read De Quincey 25 years ago. You've got my attention. I should give him another go.<BR/><BR/>You can often find bound editions of 19th magazines in used books stores. I've several years worth to The Strand that I picked up a while back. The unbound versions cost much more.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-77167979543622855482008-07-27T18:00:00.000-05:002008-07-27T18:00:00.000-05:00Dorothy, thanks for the useful enthusiasm. If I re...Dorothy, thanks for the useful enthusiasm. If I read some crazy thing, it may just be because I'm crazy - it's unconvincing. Your second is very helpful.<BR/><BR/>As for an award, why thank you. I would like to thanks my lawyer, and my accountants, and my life coach. I'll have to spend some time poking around your new blog. <BR/><BR/>I really love Lamb, more than Hazlitt, certainly more than unlovable Carlyle, but Hazlitt seems to me to be one of the earliest writers who is still very much of our time, a modernist.<BR/><BR/>Mill - that's a good idea. So is De Quincey's brief "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth", which may even have some distant relation to the Thurber story you teach.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46757566999604113972008-07-27T13:57:00.000-05:002008-07-27T13:57:00.000-05:00Speaking of confessions, I've never read any de Qu...Speaking of confessions, I've never read any de Quincey--clearly I'm missing out.<BR/><BR/>I'm pretty sure nobody should read Carlyle in the hopes of improving their prose. J. S. Mill, on the other hand...Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17131985284256884382008-07-26T10:44:00.000-05:002008-07-26T10:44:00.000-05:00Yes, I'm finding that some elements of their prose...Yes, I'm finding that some elements of their prose style are archaic and idiosyncratic. I often have to consult a dictionary while reading Lamb, but usually for words that seem no longer to be in use; once, the dictionary provided as an example of correct usage the bit of Lamb that I had just read. You're right about Hazlitt. He's much less circuitous, much more 'on point'. I esp. liked a long extract from Hazlitt's "letter to Gifford" (a reviewer who had panned Keats' poems) that I found quoted in a letter by Keats from 1819. There, Hazlitt writes of Gifford's "mercenary malice" and adds, "Your vanity panders to your interest, and your malice truckles only to your love of Power." Ouch! 'Truckles' ... I've got to keep that one in mind.praymonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09799593980838361293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54333964232226517162008-07-25T15:57:00.000-05:002008-07-25T15:57:00.000-05:00Hi there. I've nominated you for an award, hope yo...Hi there. I've nominated you for an award, hope you don't mind the imposition. See my <A HREF="http://lifeinbooks.wordpress.com" REL="nofollow">my blog</A> for more info.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-52172322577346047052008-07-25T14:42:00.000-05:002008-07-25T14:42:00.000-05:00I loved those De Quincey essays. I also love the ...I loved those De Quincey essays. I also love the idea of them being published in magazines! Why don't we have magazines like that today? I wouldn't expect the mail coach essay to wrap everything up ... I loved those essays, but they were strange, indeed.Rebecca H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10825532162727473112noreply@blogger.com