Re: John Dolan summons his literary hero
Chris Doss wrote:
And that, of course, is why Byron was adored in Europe but snubbed in England and America. He was everything Wordsworth’s gang was not. They were utterly humorless-a Romanticist once told me that “there are three jokes in Wordsworth, or so they say:but I can’t recall them.”
I think Geoffrey Hartman found one in The Prelude, around the crossing of the Alps passage, but now I can’t recall it. Oh, and The Leech Gatherer is pretty funny.
Doug