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Iarwain · 10-28-2007, 08:42 PM

Fea, I get the sense that you're a person who would really enjoy Wordsworth. Try this out:

http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html

Also, you're both sort of wrong about Adler. He reminds the reader several times that his method is applicable only where necessary, and he doesn't give any sort of rubric for aesthetic critique. (When he talks about reading poetry, he says that if you don't understand it, you should read it again and read it aloud and circle words that seem strange to you. This is nothing like Prichard, as you can tell, it's sound practical advice.) Adler's ultimate point is that books with more to offer are the ones that will be best at helping you get through life and be a good person. Fea, your comments on a lot of those authors are really petty. I don't seem to recall any ideas in the first ten pages of the Brothers K, and as it's about Fyodor Pavlovich being a sponger and abandoning his son, there's not that much to love.

10-28-2007, 08:42 PM	#35
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	Fea, I get the sense that you're a person who would really enjoy Wordsworth. Try this out: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html Also, you're both sort of wrong about Adler. He reminds the reader several times that his method is applicable only where necessary, and he doesn't give any sort of rubric for aesthetic critique. (When he talks about reading poetry, he says that if you don't understand it, you should read it again and read it aloud and circle words that seem strange to you. This is nothing like Prichard, as you can tell, it's sound practical advice.) Adler's ultimate point is that books with more to offer are the ones that will be best at helping you get through life and be a good person. Fea, your comments on a lot of those authors are really petty. I don't seem to recall any ideas in the first ten pages of the Brothers K, and as it's about Fyodor Pavlovich being a sponger and abandoning his son, there's not that much to love. __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"