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The Journey of the Magi. Dare I conjecture that you were thinking of the Return of the Jedi? :-) (More seriously, I'd put the Republic ahead of the Apology, an
by gjm11 17y ago
The Journey of the Magi. Dare I conjecture that you were thinking of the Return of the Jedi? :-)
(More seriously, I'd put the Republic ahead of the Apology, and the Waste Land ahead of Prufrock, much though I like Prufrock. Also, for the benefit of anyone wanting to lookg things up: Hemingway; Stendhal; Alexandre Dumas. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm only bothering to quibble because I think your list is a good one.)
- telemachos 17y agoThose spelling errors are pretty awful. I can't fix it any longer sadly, but thanks for catching them. I need to proof better online. I also appreciate the quibbles: it makes for better conversation. As for the Magi, I think I just had that title wrong. I am not enough of a Jedi fan for that to be it (unconsciously maybe...). As you can see from the spelling, I made the list too quickly and without checking things. But I think I've always had that title wrong. Here's my real guess: when I first studied that poem, our entire focus was on the finale (when the magi return home "no longer at ease."). So I guess that's what stuck in my head. I picked the Apology over the Republic because I prefer Plato in his Socratic phase to him in his Platonic phase. Also, the Apology is about 20 odd pages, while the Republic is many hundred. I think The Waste Land is completely overrated, but love Eliot's other poetry.
- gjm11 17y agoI hereby retract my Star Wars slander. I think TWL is rather uneven; the Fire Sermon section seems to me very fine indeed. On reflection, though I'm not convinced TWL is better than Prufrock, so I retract that too. (The Four Quartets are better than either. But long.)