Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Knowing this about you, I inserted a small (and perhaps cryptic) joke into the silly three-headed-dog poem I posted a few days ago--just a little tip-of-the-hat to the blogger who convinced me to return to Ulysses 20 years after my first, failed encounter with it...
ReplyDeleteJeff,
ReplyDeleteI must have been offline or something, I completely missed that poem.
If I haven't said it before, I really like your poetry and you are one of my top sites for poetry and things medieval.
shalom,
Steven