Matthew Hollis
Autor(a) de Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Obras por Matthew Hollis
Stones: a poem in 6 parts - second edition 4 exemplares
Leaves 2 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1971
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Ocupações
- author
editor
professor
poet - Relações
- Hollis, Patricia (mother)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 425
- Popularidade
- #57,429
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 20
I was a little surprised, especially given the author's pains to center the contributions of women, that it included so little information on Jessie Weston, especially considering the very large credit Eliot gives her in his own notes to the poem. Hollis mentions her once, I think, and I don't know if that's due to lack of evidence that her book really did influence the book to the extent Eliot claimed, or perhaps because her influence has been dealt with elsewhere. Hollis credits her with possibly suggesting the title, but even there he gives Tennyson equal standing as a possible source.
The author was in places suddenly quite preachy. For example, he doesn't just point out places where Eliot's poems are anti-semitic, but he has to write that Eliot was "shameful" in writing that way. I agree that it was shameful, but in this book it's an unusual interjection of authorial judgment, as though he doesn't trust his readers to draw the conclusion that anti-semitism is shameful.… (mais)