Talk:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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[edit] 2003

What about adding the 1911 encyclopedia article? --Keichwa 17:30 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

done --Keichwa 20:41, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Removed from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton:

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton was also a terrific artist. For example, his painting THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII is quite famous.

Bulwer-Lytton as a painter isn't known to me. Where can I see this picture? --Keichwa 19:41, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

[edit] 2005

Richard Wagner's work Rienzi is based a Bulwar Lytton work, anyopne know the title?

It is based on B-L's novel of the same title, Rienzi. Antandrus (talk) 20:31, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] To the Sentence

Personaly, I don't find that sentence so horrible, quite normal actualy. New Babylon

Do you mean the famous "It was a dark and stormy night..." sentence? Are not all stormy nights dark?
Well yes,but the level of the darknes is different-when there's no cloud's and there's a full moon it's generaly more lighted then when there's either a storm,or an eclipse,so the emphasizing on the word "dark" could also be interpreted as extremely dark,aka. having even less light then usual.New Babylon

[edit] A fine Victorian stylist?

On what basis do we call him this? I've not read more than a few pages of Bulwer-Lytton, but comparing what I've read to other Victorian writers - even to one so mediocre as Wilkie Collins, leaves Bulwer-Lytton rather short. Do critics actually consider him a good stylist? john k 18:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC) I claim that he IS a fine and wery,WERY good writter and all this is disacreting,I mean you just stamp him negativly and then people will get psychicly blocked from even Trying to read something (and they'd find out it's pretty good).Yours Truly (New Babylon)

Bulwer-Lytton was not a great stylist (although his writing improved with time and experience) but he was adequate and could be colorful on occasion. Like Wilkie Collins (mentioned above) he could even be inspired on occasion when given a good idea or character to develop.

You could sign.Anyway I liked his works pretty much actualy,his short story about a haunted house inspired me quite a bit.Also "The Last Days of the Pompeii" were Masterfully written. New Babylon 15:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] fwiw paul clifford

frankly, I think BL was parodying novels of his time in general in this work.

[edit] The Great Unwashed

Hi, I was redirected to this page when looking for "The Great Unwashed" - it is quite interesting, but it does not answer my original question! (Being: What the heck does "The Great Unwashed" *mean*?)“

[edit] It was a dark and stormy night

I said it once and Ill say it again-this sentence has nothing so "bad! about it.A simple example-if there is a night where clouds obstruct the moon,then it is a DARK knight and when those clouds are rain clouds and it rains,its a STORMY night.A dark night does NOT necesarily HAVE to be STORMY.If it would go "stormy and dark" THEN it would have been "bad" ,however I have often seen nights witch are DARK and are NOT stormy.Therefore I believe this (plus the contest of bad literature,given Edward Bulwer-Lytton's name) an unfair disgrace of the writer.

New Babylon 2 12:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Have you read the rest of the opening sentence? 'Dark and stormy night' is just a dull, undescriptive cliché, but the rest of the sentence is truly terrible, and entirely deserves its infamy. Terraxos (talk) 21:00, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Why or how is it dull? It reflects the Romantic interest in the sublime. As the previous writer noted, it is imformative. Is it a cliche? Now, yes. But had it ever been used before B-L? If so, why is he given (dis)credit? If not, then it WAS hardly a cliche. Shall we like-wise call WS the most cliche-ridden writer since the Bible?

Kdammers (talk) 01:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] strange

how is it possible that the book zanoni is influenced by Bulwer Lyttons membership of the english Rosicrucian Society which was founded in 1867, while the book was published in 1842? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.157.231.69 (talk) 20:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)