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larryhammerIt's Wednesday, and despite Things, I've been reading deeply. A very deep dive, as it were:
Finished:
Somewhere between three and four heaps of nautical poetry, depending on how you count, including Solley & Steinbaugh's Moods of the Sea, McClatchy's Poems of the Sea, Masefield's A Sailor's Garland, Masefield's Salt Water Ballads, Kipling's The Seven Seas, Carman's Ballads of Lost Haven, Fox Smith's Rovings, Fox Smith's Ships and Folks, Fox Smith's Small Craft, Fox Smith's Sailor Town, Sharp's Sea Music, Patterson's The Sea's Anthology, Longfellow* & Higginson's Thalatta, Chadwick's The Two Voices, Adams's Sea Song & River Rhyme, and Ward's Surf and Wave, plus relevant sections of miscellaneous collections and anthologies.
(Not that I've been a teeny bit obsessive or anything.)
The Shipwreck, William Falconer -- Exactly what it says on the tin: Falconer was a sailor on a merchant ship that ran into foul weather and then aground in the Aegean Sea in 1750, and lived to write a narrative poem about it. I want to find the first (1762) edition, before he expanded it with soap-operatics among the crew in an attempt to add human interest, as those parts are precisely the least interesting and vivid.
(Nope, not obsessive.)
Squire and Lady Knight, Tamara Pierce -- Comfort rereads of books 3-4 of The Protector of the Small.
In progress:
Immortal and Martial Dual Cultivation, Fiery Moon -- Up to chapter 351. High hough adventuring away.
Dauber, John Masefield -- a reread of his only book-length narrative poem about the sea. You know that sort of self-consciously "gritty" literary novel from the early 20th century that's got occasional lovely descriptive bits between the depressing Life Is Crushing "realism"? All that, in verse. Has more lovely, even stunning, descriptive oceanic bits than typical, but the depressing "gritty" parts are all there.
DNF:
The Isle of Palms, John Wilson -- A south-seas castaway narrative by a minor Romantic-era poet. The descriptions of the ocean voyage, storm, and tropical island are much more successful than the goopy sentimentality of the romantic leads' romance -- and the latter is pretty much all we get starting about halfway through.
(Okay, maybe a little obsessive … )
* Not Henry Wadsworth, but his younger brother Samuel, best known in their day as a hymnist.
---L.
Subject quote from Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples, Percy Shelley.
Finished:
Somewhere between three and four heaps of nautical poetry, depending on how you count, including Solley & Steinbaugh's Moods of the Sea, McClatchy's Poems of the Sea, Masefield's A Sailor's Garland, Masefield's Salt Water Ballads, Kipling's The Seven Seas, Carman's Ballads of Lost Haven, Fox Smith's Rovings, Fox Smith's Ships and Folks, Fox Smith's Small Craft, Fox Smith's Sailor Town, Sharp's Sea Music, Patterson's The Sea's Anthology, Longfellow* & Higginson's Thalatta, Chadwick's The Two Voices, Adams's Sea Song & River Rhyme, and Ward's Surf and Wave, plus relevant sections of miscellaneous collections and anthologies.
(Not that I've been a teeny bit obsessive or anything.)
The Shipwreck, William Falconer -- Exactly what it says on the tin: Falconer was a sailor on a merchant ship that ran into foul weather and then aground in the Aegean Sea in 1750, and lived to write a narrative poem about it. I want to find the first (1762) edition, before he expanded it with soap-operatics among the crew in an attempt to add human interest, as those parts are precisely the least interesting and vivid.
(Nope, not obsessive.)
Squire and Lady Knight, Tamara Pierce -- Comfort rereads of books 3-4 of The Protector of the Small.
In progress:
Immortal and Martial Dual Cultivation, Fiery Moon -- Up to chapter 351. High hough adventuring away.
Dauber, John Masefield -- a reread of his only book-length narrative poem about the sea. You know that sort of self-consciously "gritty" literary novel from the early 20th century that's got occasional lovely descriptive bits between the depressing Life Is Crushing "realism"? All that, in verse. Has more lovely, even stunning, descriptive oceanic bits than typical, but the depressing "gritty" parts are all there.
DNF:
The Isle of Palms, John Wilson -- A south-seas castaway narrative by a minor Romantic-era poet. The descriptions of the ocean voyage, storm, and tropical island are much more successful than the goopy sentimentality of the romantic leads' romance -- and the latter is pretty much all we get starting about halfway through.
(Okay, maybe a little obsessive … )
* Not Henry Wadsworth, but his younger brother Samuel, best known in their day as a hymnist.
---L.
Subject quote from Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples, Percy Shelley.
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Date: 10 April 2019 04:25 pm (UTC)I approve.
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Date: 10 April 2019 05:15 pm (UTC)(There may or may not be a purpose to this madness.)
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Date: 11 April 2019 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 11 April 2019 02:56 pm (UTC)