tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post4273507802262040706..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: What to do with Long Poems?Tony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-41538078052001406502017-05-03T00:30:26.775-07:002017-05-03T00:30:26.775-07:00Thanks, both. John Carey is part of a generation...Thanks, both. John Carey is part of a generation of literary critics who are staying active and productive into their eighties (Harold Bloom, Hillis Miller, and so on), so perhaps there will be more good books yet to come from him - as well as pots of Cotswolds honey! And yes, it is indeed important to get 'Sigurd the Volsung' as fully into circulation as we can. There was, I believe, an edited highlights version of it compiled by J.W. Mackail himself - will chase up the details.Tony Pinkneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-9718903377227749352017-04-28T00:35:14.921-07:002017-04-28T00:35:14.921-07:00Tony, why have you left 'Sigurd the Volsung...Tony, why have you left 'Sigurd the Volsung' out of your list of MOrris's long poems? That's surely his major achivement in the genre, and stronger than even the best of the 'Earthly Paradise' tales, such as 'The Lovers of Gudrun', say. A slimmed-down version of 'Sigurd', Carey-style, would be a real boon to contemporary readers, I should think.Kersey Dightonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-23818279363916452212017-04-27T11:16:13.842-07:002017-04-27T11:16:13.842-07:00Bee-keeping in retirement? Shades of Sherlock Hol...Bee-keeping in retirement? Shades of Sherlock Holmes, though he retires to the South coast to look after bees rather than the Cotswolds, I seem to recall. And Sherlock does come off quite well, doesn't he, compared to other turn-of-the-century figures, in Carey's 'The Intellectuals and the Masses', which I believe is the book version of the lecture series you're describing here. Koticknoreply@blogger.com