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[elizadarcy]

I didn't buy any clothes yesterday and I didn't even start Dracula. Actually I was already feeling a wee bit scared even though I hadn't even started it and so I slept on the floor in my parents' bedroom. With four volumes of poetry around me to prevent nightmares and what not. I knew I was overdoing it but overdoing it is always fun.
I've always

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[zedoaria]

We read some Tagore in our World Lit class.

And I LOVE Browning. I'm a huge fan of "Porphyria's Lover". Crazy poem.

[elizadarcy]

Tagore translated his poetry from Bangla to English but in english it is unmetred and doesn't rhyme [ most of the time ] so I', sure it is much more beautiful in Bangla [ Which I do not know.] He wrote our national anthem, though.

My mother once wanted to rationalise Porphyria's Lover and that was terrbly difficult as she refused to believe in the complex jealousy and possessive of some sorts of love...

[elizadarcy]

I can understand , my Hindi is no good, and now I feel ashamed to ask people for help - not that I'm trying to blame anyone, but they always taught us Hindi in a you better like it or be unpatriotic way. And then to seven year olds stories of how girls are considered inferior and mistreated.

[speakbitterness]

I love Browning, I got into him through Shelley - I'd heard the former was a huge fan of the latter. One of those few victorians who were.
I'm with you on Dickens, never really appealed to me, though I*ve not read him in years and people always try to persuade me otherwise.
They tried to do that with Austen to though and I still think she's rubbish.

[elizadarcy]

I read and re read Memorabilia because of the 'Shelley plain' in it... Did Swineburne also admire Shelley? - I thought that I read that he did, but I could be totally wrong.
Oh I can understand your not liking Austen - I suppose to a lot of people she seems chick - lit esque. Well, she was the first author I really loved [ check username ] but there is a lot of better and deeper literature than Austen.

[trousseaux]

^ true. I mean Austen is fantastic reading, but you must admit it is the begings of chick-lit. Still doesn't stop me loving it though!

Actually I can't get into Dickens either, it must have been to do with the fact I tried to read Great Expectations when I was 10 and consequently got very angry, and can't look any of his work in the eye since.

[elizadarcy]

I suppose Dickens is not very good for children then - Warning - Keep away from children ;)