At 01:10 AM 9/30/00 +0100, you wrote:
>In message <[log in to unmask]>, Rancho Loco
>Press <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Is the idea of "difficulty" in literature a modern idea?
Browning was notoriously difficult in his day. In a review Thomas Babington
Macaulay (I think) wrote of SORDELLO (published 1840) that he could only
understand two lines in the whole poem, and both were lies: the first
("Who will, may hear Sordello'story told")
and the last
(" Who would has heard Sordello's story told.")
Peter
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