tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post3188876674529836563..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Swinburne dries out - the most horrible and loathsome book ever to be got into type and other edifying subjectsAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-50331866609586968982015-08-24T21:47:00.793-05:002015-08-24T21:47:00.793-05:00The Swinburne-purging - I hardly believed it was t...The Swinburne-purging - I hardly believed it was the same poet. In a sense, it wasn't.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-80776553295356149462015-08-24T19:32:10.349-05:002015-08-24T19:32:10.349-05:00Your Swinburne-purging comment strikes me as very ...Your Swinburne-purging comment strikes me as very amusing--and quite true, given the Davidson samples you shared.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-38490805291306020532015-05-31T19:17:05.256-05:002015-05-31T19:17:05.256-05:00when i was in geology school we used to call ourse...when i was in geology school we used to call ourselves that while rolling large rocks off of mountainsMudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-50889540765825398852015-05-30T23:31:13.066-05:002015-05-30T23:31:13.066-05:00My impression is that more recent Swinburne critic...My impression is that more recent Swinburne criticism and biographical word has looked more favorably on Watts. Swinburne's poetry went into a decline, but I suspect that would have happened anyways, assuming he could have stayed alive and active.<br /><br />And yes, Watts - everyone who new Swinburne well - had to put up with a lot. He was an agent of chaos.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-65222505422196758372015-05-29T22:55:38.701-05:002015-05-29T22:55:38.701-05:00i recollect reading, years ago, some generalized c...i recollect reading, years ago, some generalized criticism directed at watts for "controlling swinburne". judging from your excerpted quotes he had a lot to put up with; thirty years of good to excellent poetry may be due in apart or wholly to him, it seems.Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.com