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Currently readingEngland, My England by D.H. Lawrence
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Yarb, in answer to your question about my favourite modernist: T.S. Eliot for sure. As previously mentioned I despaired of ever finding a way into Pound until I read Kenner's book. And about Joyce I have mixed feelings. When the Joyce character in Stoppard's Travesties describes his project in writing Ulysses he makes it sound like the most fascinating idea anyone ever came up with, except that I don't find it to be so, in practice. But that is me.

posted by booksaplenty1949 at 10:20 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2013

Thank you for following up. I enjoyed your review of Swamp Angel. It is an odd little book but deeply atmospheric, I found. Do you know Sheila Watson's The Double Hook? Also an odd little book set in the BC interior. The style is rather abstract in a 1950's way but you might find it of interest as a pendant to Wilson's novel. I note that two cities in Colorado were among the ten happiest in the US according to a study published last month by the University of Vermont. I hope that some of this is spilling over in your vicinity.

posted by booksaplenty1949 at 10:31 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2013

Yarb: The book was Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson. I based it on the fact that you had a "Vancouver" tag, albeit one with only two books. Then I looked, or thought I looked, at another tag or category at your site which seemed to have a lot of books about the BC interior so I was afraid that SA wasn't there because it had been tried and found wanting. But now I can't find this tag for your collection at all so I am beginning to think it was all a dream. Anyway, Swamp Angel is a fine book. I have an extra copy and would be glad to send it to you if you were not worried that this might be a set-up by a stalker. If you DID have a now-deleted category please let me know, as in the meantime I am combing through the site trying to think where I saw these books.

posted by booksaplenty1949 at 3:40 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2012

Yarb: Yes, I read The Pound Era and found it riveting. At the time all I thought about Pound was that he was a Fascist and anti-Semite who wrote impenetrable poetry, so I greatly appreciated Kenner's revelation of a way in. But there were many other high points in the book, like his analysis of Joyce's short story "Eveline." I really enjoy the kind of criticism which involves research on the ground, as it were. The ephemera of daily life pass away, obviously, and then readers misinterpret. "What is this subway 'token' of which the poet speaks? Token of what?" Kenner does not rest at the speculative answer. Did the Canadian content arrive?

posted by booksaplenty1949 at 11:20 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2012

Santa! Just got my books today and they look totally and completely awesome! I can't wait til I'm able to read some of 'em.

posted by ateolf at 10:10 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2012

Thanks for reading my reviews. I'm glad you enjoyed them. I actually haven't read "His Monkey Wife" yet, though I do have a copy downstairs. Perhaps this is a sign I should read it next! If I do, I'll certainly post a review.

posted by datrappert at 9:44 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2011