User talk:MollyTheCat
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[edit] Thanks
Thanks for the tweak on The Dunciad. I never want to admit to having stalled right in the all-important 4th book, but I suppose I have stalled a bit. I noticed that you did another Pope topic, the Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady. You might want to check out the Elegiac entry and amend what I said there, because Pope's poem is some evidence that the elegy had already picked up heroic verse before Gray (although the things titled "Elegy" written from the Restoration to 1730s, aren't, in my opinion, elegiacs at all, but, rather odes, for they really weren't public monuments). You really figure it's that celebrated a poem today? Hmm. Maybe so, though I always encountered it as a bit of a sidelight to Pope's main career. It's sort of notable that the poem gets celebrated in the age of the "Churchyard Poets", rather than in his own, and the swing to a poetry of sensibility took place after his career was over, for the most part (unless one counts Night Thoughts), and his own contemporaries praised Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Moral Epistles, and, most of all, Essay on Man above everything else he did, especially the pathetic verse like that elegy and Eloisa to Abelard. Geogre 03:45, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
- I certainly didn't mean to question the adjective for factuality, merely to ask about how deep it goes. I could be wrong (often am), but, although I see a sentimental streak in Pope (and Mack...well, it's the best bio we have, and he was a genius critic and a very acute critic of Pope's, but the biography was disappointing to me; it was as if he pulled his punches critically while not having substantially more biographical knowledge to give us) I find it interesting that the sentimental verses he wrote never seemed to get a rise out of his contemporaries. Very soon after his death, poetry not half so good but twice as emotional would be all the rage, and odd poems like Elegy and Eloisa to Abelard and even the second epitaph on the Stanton Harcourt Lovers would be rediscovered by later generations. Those folks (such as Wesley, who, we must remember, thought that The Man of Feeling was the greatest English novel and that Henry Brooke's The Fool of Quality was a rival to it) would have bad things to say about the Essay on Man and, especially, The Dunciad. I.e. I think "best Pope poem" tells us a lot about the critics and not so much about Pope, that we can, like H. R. Jauss, judge the historical moment of reception by its choice of text.
- Thank you a hundred times over for the compliment. I've been on the verge of walking away, and a compliment like that does wonders for one's confidence. Wikipedia can be addictive like a love affair, with its fights, heart break, and making up and long weeks of staggering around wondering what you're doing with your time.
- We need more folks willing to speak on Pope and that crowd. In particular, though, we desperately need anyone who can say anything intelligent at all about the 19th century, as we're woefully deficient with the Regency (except Austen), Romantics, and Victorians. Coverage there is spotty at best, with great detail and embarrassing silences alternating. I'm overjoyed to see someone adding in Pope. More is better. (I'm really a satire person, so I have to stretch (and research (gasp!)) to cover things like Augustan drama, and my own bias on poetry and prose of antagonism shows.) If there is anything I can do to help out, please let me know.
- Also, it's probably a good idea to create something on your user page, even if it's just a line saying, "I disagree with having user pages," as that makes your signature line turn blue and will save you some hassles in the long run when sloppy administrators are looking at recent changes. (Everyone's sloppy some of the time. Most people are sloppy only very occasionally.) Thanks again. Geogre 03:14, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] JC Bach
Sure no problem-- I heard a really great piece by JC Bach, the name of which I can't remember, so I wanted to learn a little more about him and I read that paragraph and I was really confused because the section headings were irrelevant to the content, and you can tell whoever wrote it absolutely loves JC Bach and is rather resentful that he isn't more popular. But hopefully that helps : ) Oh and one more thing-- Earlier I saw your comment about a need for a source concerning the statement of JC's 90 symphonies. I researched it on google a bit, and I couldn't find anything. Have you gotten any leads? AdamBiswanger1 16:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- Hi, Adam--What I think I will have to do is manually count the listed works in my copy of the New Grove Bach Family, which has a J.C. Bach work list. I did a rough count a few days ago and did not get even close to 90--but I will have to check again when I have the time to spend ensuring my accuracy. Thanks for the great comments. -MollyTheCat 15:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Bencovr.jpg ...
...has been replaced by a public domain image in the article on the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. As an unused fair-use image, it may be deleted seven days from now. Lupo 15:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Book cover
This is to let you know that I've orphaned the fair use image Image:Emmacovr (Medium).jpg, and replaced it with Image:Emma title page 1909.jpg, an image in the public domain. For more information, see the book cover replacement project. Thanks. Chick Bowen 05:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
