Robert Graves' books [Digest urth.v019.n020]

Alex David Groce · 19 Oct 1998, 17:58 · from urth-v0020.mbox · original

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From: "Alex David Groce" <adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Robert Graves' books [Digest urth.v019.n020]
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:58:56
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John Bishop wrote:
> I've read most of them, a long time ago.  I subsequently
> learnt a bit of anthropology, linguistics and history,
> all making me doubt the background element of matriarchy
> replaced by patriarchy.  And I only ever saw the "bln..."
> alphabetic order in his works ("Beth Luis Nion"), until=20
> just now, when an altavista search shows them being used
> by neo-pagans.
>=20
> But could he write!  Like Orwell, his work was once famous
> and is now undeservedly obscure.

	1984 isn't obscure, but most of his best writing (Road to Wigan Pier &
the essays in general) is.  1984 is an important book, but it isn't all that
well written, except for a spots here and there (the opening and the finale=
).
	I wonder why it happened to Orwell.  To bring us on topic, Wolfe's
talked about his two favorites, also far more obscure than they deserve to =
be,
Kipling and Chesterton.  You can see political/social agendas lurking behind
those falls from critical favor, but that really shouldn't hurt Orwell--I m=
ean,
having argued with Gollancz and criticized Shaw and the Webbs isn't exactly
cause for blacklisting now that nobody defends Stalin...
--=20
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32
--
Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)
Senior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)
'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President
608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce

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