Opinion of James Joyce

[DemPGH]

"HP" is relative.

He's a major literary figure who's very challenging (and not all of his work is like Finnegans Wake, of course - it took him like twenty years to produce that), so in RL terms, he's a FF. But in context, HP.

I don't enjoy that era, its norms, its "high literary culture," etc. It's insufferably pretentious. That's just me. Don't care much for T.S. Eliot either.

[DemPGH]

I don't enjoy that era, its norms, its "high literary culture," etc. It's insufferably pretentious. That's just me. Don't care much for T.S. Eliot either.

You might like later Eliot better than earlier Eliot because his work is a lot more self-aware, self-critical and less overwhelmingly riddling, but it's also heavily religious in both structure and content, so maybe not.

I PMed you.

You know, I don't mind the metaphysical approach at all, I think it's the more didactic approach that I mind. I find John Donne to be a little overbearing, but not John Milton. I've read C.S. Lewis as well, and while I don't react negatively to it (he's an exceptional writer from a stylistic point of view, and often funny), I probably just don't relate.