Ha: Leavis's Great Tradition, & then DHL the pinnacle!
Doug
On 16-Dec-05, at 3:40 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> You sure you're not a fan?
>
> We disagree about the poems. As to the stories, hey, mostly not
> masterpieces, but mostly way better than O. Henry. I've never seen the
> paintings.
>
> More interesting for discussion than our (partial) disagreement is the
> change in opinion, and the passion behind it, as evidenced here,
> remembering that the passion on the other side was if anything
> stronger once upon a time. He was considered by many one of the
> seminal (if I can use the word) figures, tho it now seems obvious that
> he barely deserves a seat at the table with contemporaries like
> Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Ford.
>
> Mark
>
> At 05:03 PM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
>>> Complete agreement about the novels. Some of the short stories, and
>>> the poems, stand up considerably better.
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>>> Mark
>>
>> I don't get this, Mark -- for all of me, the only thing that stands
>> up to rereading is +The Rainbow+. (+Women in Love+ is a fascist
>> joke.) The short stories are clever, but then so was O. Henry (whom
>> I'd rather reread). As for the poems -- best that can be said for
>> them is that they suck.
>>
>> As for, dear god, DHL's paintings ...
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> (not a DHL fan)
>
>
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