Comments | angevin2: in which our heroine achieves a modicum of self-discovery

angevin2

in which our heroine achieves a modicum of self-discovery

Jun 05, 2006 23:29

I'm still chipping away at the Spenser post, and hoping to have it done soon. While working on it, though, I have come to realize something about myself. So, erm.

*steps up the mic and coughs a little*

My name is Lea, and, uh...I like Spenser.

I mean, he wouldn't have liked me, since I'm way too papist and all, and I certainly don't endorse his ( Read more... )

wtf, spenser

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likeadeuce June 6 2006, 04:48:03 UTC

well, i will confess to not having read any Spenser, aside from the Lear-source parts. also, something about a butterfly I read for a renaissance lit course.

angevin2 June 6 2006, 04:50:21 UTC

Muiopotmus! I have a sort of sneaking fondness for that poem, because my diss director said my writing/patterns of thought reminded him of it. Which isn't at all reassuring, really, but I do like the poem...

likeadeuce June 6 2006, 04:53:18 UTC

That. . .sounds possible?

It was for a lovely course called Metamorphic Poetics, where we started with Virgil, spent a long time on Ovid, touched on Chaucer and Spenser and Thomas Heywood before reading MSND and ending on Milton's Comus. Much fun was had.

likeadeuce June 6 2006, 04:54:06 UTC

so, umm, not so much a renaissance lit course, as i think about it. but fun.

ladybretagne June 6 2006, 04:48:32 UTC

I love Faerie Queene madly and it's not even remotely in my area of expertise, if that's any consolation. ;-)

angevin2 June 6 2006, 04:51:14 UTC

See, I am entirely down with other people liking Spenser. I just feel funny about it because I hated him for so long... ;)

saffronlie June 6 2006, 05:40:05 UTC

LOL!! It's always a problem when you change your mind about a writer. I hated the first Peter Carey novel I read, and deeply resented having to read three more of his books... but now that I have, I can see more clearly into his preoccupations and I sort of get where he's coming from. But I still don't want to like him.

I think it's better to go from hate to love, though, rather than discovering that the author you OMG loved is actually kind of rubbish... That kind of disillusionment is hard to take. :(

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lnhammer June 6 2006, 14:32:14 UTC

Well, I dunno about tell a story. Construct it yes, but his sense of pacing is a bit whack, more than sometimes.

---L.

poisoninjest June 6 2006, 11:04:37 UTC

I first encountered Spenser my first semester as a grad student, and I hated him, but I was young and unprepared and confused and was doing well to get my reading done for every class, never mind making any sense of it. So now, five years later, I'm about to reread FQ for comps. I'm waiting to see how much my opinion's changed. *g*