tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post115570852568042590..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: A Meme!Flaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-1155804643437834192006-08-17T04:50:00.000-04:002006-08-17T04:50:00.000-04:00I vividly remember reading 'Prufrock' in school to...I vividly remember reading 'Prufrock' in school too - funny how affecting 'I grow old... I grow old...' can be when you're seventeen. (Reminds me of studying Milton's sonnet 'How soon hath Time' as an undergrad., with a middle-aged Professor who couldn't believe how seriously we all took it.) <BR/><BR/>Have you read Waugh's <I>The Loved One</I>? It made me howl, not least with its concluding punch-line. There's also an edition of his letters to and from Nancy Mitford (dedicatee of <I>The Loved One</I>), which is both laugh-out-loud funny and terribly sad.<BR/><BR/>Crispinella<BR/><BR/>P.S. As an EM drama geek I have to love Eliot for his 'Brome deserves to be more read than he is, and first of all to be more accessible than he is' comment, even if it's not altogether complimentary in context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-1155778495982764192006-08-16T21:34:00.000-04:002006-08-16T21:34:00.000-04:00How neat: Eliot made a pretty big impact on me, to...How neat: Eliot made a pretty big impact on me, too. His was the first poetry I didn't understand. High school being what it was, I didn't read Eliot until college and I was blown away. I still have my copy of Selected Poems from that class; you can barely find the text for all my scribbles. I loved that he was hard, that you had to work to get it. Besides all that, he wrote some beautiful poems, Prufrock being one of my favs.<BR/><BR/>And I got a little misty-eyed when I found George Eliot's grave in Highgate Cemetary. Middlemarch has to be one of my favorite novels.phd mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16708857060614302495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-1155772664110855172006-08-16T19:57:00.000-04:002006-08-16T19:57:00.000-04:00My Brit Lit class read Decline and Fall my senior ...My Brit Lit class read <I>Decline and Fall</I> my senior year of college. Pedagogically speaking, it may have been a disaster from my professor's point of view, because all of us -- including her -- really couldn't talk about the book without breaking into laughter. So we pretty much just laughed for the entire class period and did very little analysis. But at least it convinced even the skeptical students that literature can be really, really fun!<BR/><BR/>Now, the problem with <I>Moby Dick</I> is that no one has come up with a nice, lightweight version that still has readable font.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com