From gammage.kennedy at gmail.com Mon Jan 18 11:18:41 2016 From: gammage.kennedy at gmail.com (Kennedy Gammage) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:18:41 -0800 Subject: [ilds] Wordsworth dixit Message-ID: Thought I would share this with the List. I sent this query to Bruce and David this morning and received a prompt (and typically erudite) response: Q: Wasn't it Durrell who said something like a writer creates the climate by which his or her work can be judged or appreciated by readers? Does that sound at all familiar? Thanks ? Ken A: Ken, yes, something like that. Maybe you?re thinking of the epigraph to Quinx: ?? must itself create the taste by which it is to be judged ? Wordsworth dixit.? Well, what Wordsworth actually said in a letter to Lady Beaumont, dated 21 May 1807, was much clearer and reads as follows: ?Never forget what I believe was observed to you by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great an original, must himself create the taste by which he is relished.? Harold Bloom, I believe, would disagree strongly with this assertion and say it is wrong (tellingly wrong), mainly because it assumes writers of genius are doing anything completely new. That is to say, they really suffer from the ?anxiety of influence.? Happy New Year! - Bruce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gammage.kennedy at gmail.com Wed Jan 20 16:13:18 2016 From: gammage.kennedy at gmail.com (Kennedy Gammage) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:13:18 -0800 Subject: [ilds] Who does this remind you of Message-ID: ?Not surprisingly, Henry misrepresented a lot of what had happened. His fan the essayist Max Beerbohm made a sour list of twenty instances in which he thought that James had falsified documents. Certainly, Henry fabulated and shaped various details and incidents. He cleaned up muddy incidents, placed events in the wrong time ? all the usual things that writers do. He did this, as writers will, in pursuit of the story he wanted to tell?? - Adam Gopnik on Henry James in The New Yorker, January 18, 2016 Cheers - Ken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net Thu Jan 21 02:02:23 2016 From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:02:23 +0900 Subject: [ilds] Who does this remind you of In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <283CBE77-67B7-4912-ABAF-06A3D24EDFF1@earthlink.net> >From Inchon, South Korea. I don't think Adam Gopnik on Henry James is relevant to our discussions. Bruce Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Kennedy Gammage wrote: > > ?Not surprisingly, Henry misrepresented a lot of what had happened. His fan the essayist Max Beerbohm made a sour list of twenty instances in which he thought that James had falsified documents. Certainly, Henry fabulated and shaped various details and incidents. He cleaned up muddy incidents, placed events in the wrong time ? all the usual things that writers do. He did this, as writers will, in pursuit of the story he wanted to tell?? > > - Adam Gopnik on Henry James in The New Yorker, January 18, 2016 > > Cheers - Ken > > _______________________________________________ > ILDS mailing list > ILDS at lists.uvic.ca > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/ilds From cls9k at virginia.edu Sun Jan 24 06:22:47 2016 From: cls9k at virginia.edu (Charles Sligh) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:22:47 -0500 Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?q?In_Paddy=27s_Footsteps=3A_A_Private_Tour_of_Patr?= =?utf-8?q?ick_Leigh_Fermor=E2=80=99s_Greece_=26_Crete?= Message-ID: *In Paddy's Footsteps:* *A Private Tour of Patrick Leigh Fermor?s Greece and Crete* *17th-30th June 2016* In Paddy?s Footsteps is a unique journey into Patrick Leigh Fermor?s Greece and Crete. Between 17th and 30th June 2016, a group of no more than twenty travellers will visit major sites in PLF?s life: from his favourite restaurants and hotels, to the homes where he lived and wrote; from Classical monuments to the caves in which the Kreipe kidnappers hid. Our guides will include several Leigh Fermor experts. The tour begins in Athens, where we will eat at Tou Psara, where Leigh Fermor and George Katsimbalis often ate. We then travel through Mycenae and Epidavros to Leigh Fermor?s preferred hotel in Nafplion. From there, we visit Hydra, where much of Mani was written, and the mill at Lemonodassos where Leigh Fermor lived in 1935-36. Then, after stopping at Mystras, we will visit Leigh Fermor?s house at Kardamyli and explore the Mani. Next, we travel to Crete where, after visiting Knossos and the Kreipe kidnap site, we will trace the kidnappers? journey into the White Mountains, and tour the Resistance sites of the Amari Valley. Our journey ends at Rethymnon, where we will link up with the International Lawrence Durrell Society?s conference. * Four-star hotels, air-conditioned private transportation. * Expert speakers and guides, including Chris White (contributing author of ?Abducting a General?), Costas Malamakis (former curator, Historical Museum of Crete), and Simon Fenwick (archivist who has been researching the Leigh Fermor and Xan Fielding archives). * Private visit to Leigh Fermor?s Mani home, guided by his housekeeper Elpida Beloyanni. * Guided tours of the Kreipe abduction site and escape route, and the Resistance sites of the Amari Valley. * Entry to the International Lawrence Durrell Society?s conference, On Miracle Ground, whose theme is ?British Writers in World War II Crete?. * Optional tours of the Benaki Museum, the Hadjikyriakos-Ghika House, the town of Chania, and the Samaria Gorge. * The tour is strictly limited to no more than twenty travellers. * Cost: 2965 Euros per head, including Athens-Heraklion flights, all private ground transportation, hotels, breakfasts, 16 lunches or dinners, conference fees, and guide fees. ** To register or request further details, please email info at patrickleighfermorsociety.org * ** PLEASE SEE ATTACHED PDF* ***************************************** Charles L. 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