I Hate Tennyson. (Again)

[annajaneclare]

Right, must go back to work shortly. I have sworn on everything I hold sacred that I will finish this manuscript by the 15th, which is going to be fun because I have to do a full manicure and pedicure for Mother tomorrow and then Monday is Man's Birthday and I'll probably need to take him out to dinner or something. So Ayn has had to hang on for a

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[buddleia]

Yes, it was!
"We can curry the rabbit," she said [...]He said nothing, but his eyes thanked her for being brave. No doubt misquoted but I love Saki.

[annajaneclare]

It was, yes. And Sredni Vashtar, about the aunt-devouring polecat.

[janedavitt]

I love Tennyson! He has some lines that just really work for me.

Three Queens with crowns of gold: and from them rose
A cry that shivered to the tingling stars,
And, as it were one voice, an agony
Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills
All night in a waste land, where no one comes,
Or hath come, since the making of the world.

[annajaneclare]

Yeah. I just don't get it.

[janedavitt]

Poetry's one thing where mileage really does vary. I had a new co-written novel come out a week or so ago and the title's actually from a Tennyson poem; Truthful Change.

I also love Kipling, but other than those two, I don't read much poetry at all.

[annajaneclare]

Try W.B. Yeats sometime. He knocks the shit out of most of the late 19th Century boys.

I had a new co-written novel come out a week or so ago and the title's actually from a Tennyson poem; Truthful Change.

Actually one of my favourite films of all time has a title ripped straight out of Tennyson "Kind hearts are more than coronets and simple faith than Norman blood", so don't worry - I won't judge you. ;)

[ultra_lilac]

I love Oscar Wilde, but Saki is way underrated.
I don't know that Saki is funnier/wittier, but his barbs where a lot sharper.
Saki seemed to side-step the whole florid Victorian sentimentalist thing that Wilde had dragging against his pen hand at times.

[hooloovoo_42]

some bloke from Warwickshire who was apparently quite good

I didn't realise Pa was quite so famous!

[f4f3]

Hopefully you had a copy of The Devil's Dictionary, and another of Groucho's collected works to calm you down...