tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post2011796745881759855..comments2024-03-06T10:35:14.033+00:00Comments on The Grub Street Lodger: Rasselas ReviewGrubStLodgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05688293269271572695noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-1922840484067398472012-04-13T04:20:57.164+01:002012-04-13T04:20:57.164+01:00I have a modernish London Spy, and a print on dema...I have a modernish London Spy, and a print on demand Amusements. I wouldn't mind a proper collection though - those proper Grub Street entertainments interest me the most.<br /><br />As for poetry, me and poetry have an awkward relationship.GrubStLodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688293269271572695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-11367235775352210572012-04-12T18:09:00.471+01:002012-04-12T18:09:00.471+01:00Isaac BICKERSTAFF esq., I meant. Typing on a tiny ...Isaac BICKERSTAFF esq., I meant. Typing on a tiny iphone screen here...jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-16751619202899315012012-04-12T18:05:50.617+01:002012-04-12T18:05:50.617+01:00"lucubrations" wasn't pejorative in ..."lucubrations" wasn't pejorative in any sense - I was meaning something like "musings" - ! i.e. the essays in The Tatler were denoted as The Lucubrations of Isaac Buckerstaff, Esq. I enjoyed Ned Ward of Grub Street too ( not sure what Passionate Intelligence is - have to check). I think Brown and Ward are unfairly underrated. There are no modern reprints of their collected editions, so one needs to pick the originals - scarce, expensive, and frequently surviving in defective copies - to read 'em properly I think. I have the 5 vol. Works of Tom Brown , 1720-21, but the similarly-sized Ward is harder to find and pricier. Are you an 18th C. poetry fan? Haven't spotted any references as yet...jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-531086313709647182012-04-12T12:58:56.596+01:002012-04-12T12:58:56.596+01:00I think it's that urge for completeness that e...I think it's that urge for completeness that encourages me to get that book, that and I very enjoyed Amusements &c.<br /><br />Also, the other ones in the series were very good - Ned Ward of Grubstreet was entertaining, Passionate Intelligence very thought-provoking and I have The Genius of Goldsmith to get to.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment, not sure what I think about lucubration, I suppose I have a tendency to gild things up a bit.GrubStLodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688293269271572695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312144660782900333.post-6930029844020443712012-04-12T04:43:48.937+01:002012-04-12T04:43:48.937+01:00Hello Adam,
I'm enjoying your blog... just di...Hello Adam,<br /><br />I'm enjoying your blog... just discovered it. I've read Rasselas three times - but not for at least ten years. On a different note, I have a copy of 'Tom Brown of Facetious Memory' by Benjamin Boyce. It's OK - and indispensable to students/amateurs of Brown, since the sole full-length study - but sets an annoying tone from the outset: (from memory) it opens,"Tom Brown is of course small beer". That must make Boyce the equivalent of the dregs of a lukewarm can of Shandy Bass since Tom B. (R.I.P.) has about ten thousand times more heart than his timeserver of a biographer (actually the book is more literary criticism than biography - in fairness to Boyce little biographical information has survived). <br /><br />Anyway, I look forward fo reading more of your lucubrations...jamesnoreply@blogger.com