Andrew,
You sent me back to remembering reading *Middlemarch at uni, and then
recently watching a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series of it. Until I saw the
mini-series, I didn't appreciate many of the political/professional threads
that're beautifully pulled around the entire cast of characters in the
novel.
Here's a wonderful opinion [1994 NYT] by Mary Gordon of her reading and
rereading *Middlemarch as well as watching the mini-series---a thorough,
discerning and fresh personal view:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/books/george-eliot-dorothea-and-me-rereading-and-rereading-middlemarch.html?pagewanted=all
Best,
Judy
2009/4/27 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> I've just blogged this fiercesome quote from George Eliot: “To be a poet is
> to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it,
> and
> so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely
> ordered
> variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes
> instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of
> knowledge.”
>
> Challenging?
>
>
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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