Re: Who is No 2 in English Literature after Shakespeare?
- From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:52:14 +0200
On 2011-05-18 19:11:02 +0200, Dr Peter Young said:
On 18 May 2011 Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2011-05-17 19:08:59 +0200, Dave Baker said:
I guess we are all in agreement as to who is No 1?
Shaw wouldn't have agreed. I can't find the specific quotation I was
looking for, in which he compared Shakespeare's genius with his own,
and found Shakespeare's inferior, but this gives you a sense of what he
thought:
Found it in the ODQ 2nd edition (I knew there was a reason why I kept
it).
"With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not
even Sir Walter Scott, whom I despise so entirely as I despise
Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.... It would positively
a relief to dig him up and throw stones at him". (Dramatic Opinions
and Essays, 1907).
That's the one. I thought of looking in the ODQ 2nd edition myself, but decided it wasn't likely be there. Pity. I don't have the later edition, but my browsing in it (not to mention Bernard Levin's review many years ago) suggest that it is far inferior.
In my googling I was using "genius" when I should have been using "mind". Google's quite good at asking "Did you mean 'mind'?" if I ask for "mined", but it can't manage to guess "mind" if I search for "genius".
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athel
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