tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5197604024824804576..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Monday literay links - true taste is laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonishedAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-8640593581714410002009-05-14T08:55:00.000-05:002009-05-14T08:55:00.000-05:00But it's John Lloyd Stephens who explored the Yuca...But it's <A HREF="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2008/03/incidents-of-travel-in-yucatan.html" REL="nofollow">John Lloyd Stephens</A> who explored the Yucatan!<br /><br />Thanks for the correction - maybe it will stick.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-6791975870996909642009-05-13T23:01:00.000-05:002009-05-13T23:01:00.000-05:00Buddy: You keep saying "Stephens"--it's singular ...Buddy: You keep saying "Stephens"--it's singular (sort of): Stephen. Leslie Stephen. Virginia Stephen. Vanessa Stephen. James Fitzjames Stephen. James Stephen, the Colonial Undersecretary and author of Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography. James Kenneth Stephen, whose poetry you might examine and enjoy (Lapsus Calami), and pretty good Jack the Ripper suspect. Just saying.zhivnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-59250887694023505822009-04-27T09:27:00.000-05:002009-04-27T09:27:00.000-05:00Thanks for the Stephens lines - I wonder if I will...Thanks for the Stephens lines - I wonder if I will be able to find similar goodies in <I>The Victorian Art of Fiction: 19th-Century Essays on the Novel</I>, fortcoming, in, like , three days?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-14420395204771326042009-04-24T11:44:00.000-05:002009-04-24T11:44:00.000-05:00I like this description of critical activity too, ...I like this description of critical activity too, from Leslie Stephen: "We are not passive buckets to be pumped into, as Mr Carlyle puts it, mere receptacles for ready-made ideas, but fellow-creatures capable of being roused into independent activity." Hear hear.<br /><br />The grading is not quite done, alas, but I was wise to save the 4th-year papers for last, as most of them are quite enjoyable to read.Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-86914447701413077882009-04-22T09:30:00.000-05:002009-04-22T09:30:00.000-05:00Now that's an interesting way to put it, and I thi...Now that's an interesting way to put it, and I think just right. That's why the idea is so appealing to me - it's not passive enjoyment. At it's best, appreciationism allows for restlessness, and changing tastes, and all that messy stuff. You don't just say "Isn't that nice" and end the discussion.<br /><br />I hope grading went well (and is over)!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46143570814787221862009-04-20T18:54:00.000-05:002009-04-20T18:54:00.000-05:00That's a great bit of Ruskin. It makes Appreciatio...That's a great bit of Ruskin. It makes Appreciationism sound like such an active, engaged sort of criticism. Terrific.Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.com