tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522565657005236451.post4239214601122995899..comments2023-10-29T05:53:12.468-07:00Comments on The Evitable: Doris LessingMartin Heavisideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11812116639671153974noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522565657005236451.post-78094160275953175742007-10-16T03:51:00.000-07:002007-10-16T03:51:00.000-07:00Thanks for stopping by, both of you. Bloom probabl...Thanks for stopping by, both of you. Bloom probably knows a little about reading poetry, but not enough to know if you're going to call an anthology 'the best poems in the English language' you give Ben Jonson--who was a much finer lyric poet--considerably more space than Shakespeare. Among other errors of omission and commission.<BR/>Yes, there's an intriguing quality of going her own way in Lessing, which makes for a rebarbative quality in some of her work, but is no bad quality nevertheless.Martin Heavisideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11812116639671153974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522565657005236451.post-46310006771710367242007-10-15T09:30:00.000-07:002007-10-15T09:30:00.000-07:00Lessing's great, for every novel I devour there's ...Lessing's great, for every novel I devour there's another I find indigestible- that's something in itself isn't it? She's brave. She never aims for consistency. How many authors have such a diverse body of work? And yet remain so purely themselves?Andrew Tibbettshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113331814983659748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522565657005236451.post-36981171881209401062007-10-14T12:11:00.000-07:002007-10-14T12:11:00.000-07:00Thanks for that passage of Lessing, Martin. I've r...Thanks for that passage of Lessing, Martin. I've read older works, and realize I've missed a couple of decades of her output. I like the crack about Harold Bloom, too. Although, having just read "The Art of Reading Poetry," I gotta admit, I learned stuff. NonnieNonnie Augustinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13816791734965165997noreply@blogger.com