tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post2907969045108596972..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Poe and his Tomahawk - His qualifications are too well known to need comment.Amateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-23983814925974380652009-02-25T22:56:00.000-06:002009-02-25T22:56:00.000-06:00Poe was friends with Hirst? Then this was a habit ...Poe was friends with Hirst? Then this was a habit - his review of his friend Wilmer's poems is, if anything, more brutal.<BR/><BR/>Like Rob says, it's the puffery that was really Poe's target. He might have succeeded too well, since by the end of the 1840s there was a lot of pretty nasty reviewing and score-settling. But the puffery, that stuff was useless. Not that, as Stefanie suggests, we are entirely free of it now.<BR/><BR/>Brian, it's perverse, isn't it? I had the same twinge - wait, that mammoth thing sounds so crazy that maybe I should read it.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Knabb, welcome to Wuthering Expectations. I only started looking at Rexroth's translations this summer, when I went to Japan. He has been very helpful, as has the <A HREF="http://www.bopsecrets.org/" REL="nofollow">Bureau of Public Secrets</A>. <A HREF="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/search/label/REXROTH%20Kenneth" REL="nofollow">For example</A>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-8243813133928340622009-02-25T16:25:00.000-06:002009-02-25T16:25:00.000-06:00What makes it even funnier is that Hirst was actua...What makes it even funnier is that Hirst was actually a good friend of Poe's.<BR/><BR/>I think Poe was so scathing because he was the only one doing this sort of critical work. In order to undue the prevalent "puffing system" (which Margaret Fuller called "the mutual admiration society"), he had to come down hard to make his point. It's sort of out of context reading it today, but it was very innovative.Rob Velellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284492589098267999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-33806097037103658112009-02-25T12:01:00.000-06:002009-02-25T12:01:00.000-06:00The Coming of the Mammoth- The Funeral of Time, an...<I>The Coming of the Mammoth- The Funeral of Time, and Other Poems</I>. Ohh, that sounds wonderfully, utterly, so mammothly fantastic! And without me even knowing their tusks were made of steel! I must now go find a copy.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632328198420140293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29471619579895298412009-02-25T10:55:00.000-06:002009-02-25T10:55:00.000-06:00Gotta love Poe and his reviews. Makes me sort of w...Gotta love Poe and his reviews. Makes me sort of wish that he was reviewing today. It would certainly be a breath of fresh air in many respects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20974410024896059422009-02-25T10:29:00.000-06:002009-02-25T10:29:00.000-06:00I notice you're reading Rexroth's Greek Anthology ...I notice you're reading Rexroth's Greek Anthology translations. You might enjoy checking out my Rexroth Archive at http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexrothBureau of Public Secretshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105881329114373713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-77774976010669261712009-02-25T07:51:00.000-06:002009-02-25T07:51:00.000-06:00He was obviously rather secure in himself and his ...He was obviously rather secure in himself and his position to be so scathing. Of course, these do appear to be truly bad---so no great risk in such vicious attacks. But he does seem to have something against pigs--since being compared to one seems to be the lowest of the low. Why take it out on the animal world. DadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com