tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post1008101885643481574..comments2023-10-11T06:50:10.494-04:00Comments on The Glass-Bottom Blog: Wardrop, snowdrop, raindropZedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post-12327961364736422332011-07-10T00:01:31.013-04:002011-07-10T00:01:31.013-04:00Ha! I confess I had to enlist Google to find the _...Ha! I confess I had to enlist Google to find the _Hamlet_ reference (on the assumption that "decline upon" was the only plausibly Shakespearean thing here). Inexcusable really. <br /><br />And here, a few lines earlier, is T. ruining Wordsworth equally effectively:<br /><br />"O my cousin, shallow-hearted! O my Amy, mine no more!<br />O the dreary, dreary moorland! O the barren, barren shore!"<br /><br />One of the later Victorian critics, either Arnold or Swinburne, distinguished between (was it?) simpleness and simplicity, anyway T. was said to have had the affectedly childish version and W. the real version. Of course it is not fair to judge Tennyson by such of his horrors as have become canonical.<br /><br />Thanks for the Donne wardrop. For some reason "old rich wardrops" brings up an irresistibly strong image of motor oil.Zedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145200404704322540.post-39252807201120766852011-07-09T23:25:45.862-04:002011-07-09T23:25:45.862-04:00I've now stared at 'wardrop' until it ...I've now stared at 'wardrop' until it dissolved, but did run into an instance in Donne's satire II first: "But (Oh) we allow / Good workes as good, but out of fashion now, / Like old rich wardrops." <br /><br />Also, free-associating from your mention of Tennyson: this intersection of bookishness and (garish) music, in Locksley Hall (which was new to me),<br /><br />"Is it well to wish thee happy?--having known me--to decline / On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine!" <br /><br />(Have you heard of any more Shakespeare being ruined this way?)Calistahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956732769475305386noreply@blogger.com