Re: Please welcome my fellow Eyries
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.STTNWAHO.covad.net)
Date: July 24, 2003 03:16AM
The only German writer I can think of that hasn't been mentioned is Hegel (assuming he isn't Austrian or Swiss, I can't remember), but then I admit my woeful ignorance in this category. I'm nearly as ignorant about English lit, to be honest, but although I have read few of the "classics" I have certainly *heard* a great deal about them over the years, and thus am able to get many references. German composers, now, I could go on all night... :)
Barbie: my last name is Seibert
The quote is vintage Marx, like the one about books and dogs.
I have always had a soft spot for Wordsworth, I must admit. I am particularly fond of "The world is too much with us" as it has always seemed to me rather alarmingly contemporary and appropriate. I first read him in high school, the year I had a fabulous and enlightened English teacher (god knows what he was doing in a public high school).
Magda: thanks for the tip about those songs. I knew that once...
Hi Teacher, and any of Barbie's fellow students!