tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post3196532235058817631..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: F. Scott Fitzsgerald on DunsanyJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-59168844309384985042012-08-09T08:18:31.874-07:002012-08-09T08:18:31.874-07:00John,
TWO poems. That's it.John,<br /><br />TWO poems. That's it.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-63532466778415352722012-08-09T01:04:24.358-07:002012-08-09T01:04:24.358-07:00Yes, I was very happy to find the bok because I ha...Yes, I was very happy to find the bok because I have never seen the British text before.<br /><br />No problem, John: Try<br /><br />o f f i c e AT d u n s a n y DOT c o m<br /><br />or (maybe better)<br />l i t e r a r y AT d u n s a n y DOT c o m<br /><br />and tell Lady Dunsany that Martin Andersson follows your blog. I'll tell her you said hi when I nip over for tea today.Magisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07903799437411528229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-54320053435037887172012-08-08T13:25:16.253-07:002012-08-08T13:25:16.253-07:00Hi David
I don't think it was as arbitrary ...Hi David<br /> I don't think it was as arbitrary as all that. Dunsany had written two poems ("Songs from an Evil Wood", "A Dirge to Victory") that got picked up and anthologized; one got reprinted in SMART SET. Plus, Dunsany read his poems aloud during his performances on the lecture circuit; this was in 1919-1920, and I don't know enough about the textual history of Fitzgerald's novel (although I do know it was re-written many times) to know if that's too late or not.<br /> I skimmed A COLLEGE OF ONE, the reading lists Fitzgerald drew up shortly before his dead as a self-education course for his mistress; Sudemann shows up there along with most but not all the names from this list; Dunsany, so far as I can tell, is among the missing.<br /><br />--John R.John D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-6903514917634748442012-08-08T13:18:12.532-07:002012-08-08T13:18:12.532-07:00Dear Magister
Wow. I'd forgotten all about ...Dear Magister<br /> Wow. I'd forgotten all about that. I think that came about when Doug pointed out to me that the U. S. edition differed slightly from the UK original, in that one story was dropped and replaced by a different one. <br /><br /> It's kind of like when I was at the Wade a few years ago looking at some of the books from Owen Barfield's library and saw one listed as "gift from unknown donor", picked it up, and looked inside, to see my note to him of when I gave him that book.<br /> <br /> --By the way, if you have contact with the Dunsany Estate, I'd like help in getting in touch with them; I have a project I'd like to pitch and see if they're interested.<br /><br /> Thanks for the little time-slip.<br /><br />--John R.John D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-3776391290299041122012-08-03T08:37:39.665-07:002012-08-03T08:37:39.665-07:00The character who believes that Patience was writt...The character who believes that <i>Patience</i> was written about Oscar Wilde is mistaken: <i>Patience</i> predates Wilde's fame, and indeed he built his reputation in part on being a character like Bunthorne.<br /><br />Whether Fitzgerald shared his character's error might not be clear. But it's sloppy that Fitzgerald could be writing of Dunsany's poems in 1920, at which time Dunsany had only published half a dozen poems, only two of these adult signed work. It suggests to me that Fitzgerald had vaguely heard of Dunsany, but had no idea what he'd written, and picked "poems" just because poems are the type of literature most often read aloud, not out of any consideration of the metrical qualities of Dunsany's actual work.<br /><br />With that, and in the absence (I presume) of a correction by the narrator or any other character, I doubt Fitzgerald knew anything about G&S either.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-91839525943807893042012-08-02T16:13:30.689-07:002012-08-02T16:13:30.689-07:00Hi John!
Today I found a copy of Fifty-One Tales ...Hi John!<br /><br />Today I found a copy of <i>Fifty-One Tales</i> with a greeting from you and Douglas Anderson in the library at Dunsany Castle. :)Magisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07903799437411528229noreply@blogger.com