The Four Quartets is excellent of course. But he was still a dried-up equivocating banker of a personality and that just can't help but come through in the writing. Give me the mad mystics any day.
Lovely. Maybe I can do a London for it once a month, I'll have to wait and see a little. But I'm also curious - where does surrealism fit in this schema?
Ha. My non-academic, made-up schema you mean? Obviously I love Surrealism as well, but I see it as Symbolism that's just a bit too much in its own head.
Surrealism worships Freud. Symbolism worships an incense-dripping Mary.
Cold collage? Wash your mouth out 😉
I don't know much about Symbolism, but my own "personal favouring" is the Four Quartets. It's all in there!
Definitely up for a good salon or two.
The Four Quartets is excellent of course. But he was still a dried-up equivocating banker of a personality and that just can't help but come through in the writing. Give me the mad mystics any day.
Lovely. Maybe I can do a London for it once a month, I'll have to wait and see a little. But I'm also curious - where does surrealism fit in this schema?
Ha. My non-academic, made-up schema you mean? Obviously I love Surrealism as well, but I see it as Symbolism that's just a bit too much in its own head.
Surrealism worships Freud. Symbolism worships an incense-dripping Mary.
Isn’t academia partly a way to pretend that whatever it says isn’t also made up?
A surrealist, a symbolist, a romantic, and a magician walk(s) into a bar…
Good move Thomas. Salons are needed.
Thank you Peter. Naturally you and Alkistis would be welcome at any of the gatherings.
Would love to come Thomas, just a long way from you!