British vs French 19thc century lit rumble

[duke o' york]

Laz is right, the French haven't got a hope when it comes to poets. Although if anyone mentions Wordsworth as a Great Britain hope, then I'll laugh so much I might spill my pint. And you wouldn't want that to happen.
Fortunately, although he wrote almost all of his work in Britain, Wilde doesn't count, or else they'd have a pretty tough time with drama too.

Stick to the novels mes braves!

[ahasverus]

Speaking of shelley
mary shelley- frankenstein

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Oh, and I was under the impression that William could (almost) actually write, and his brother Walter took all the glory because he was mopre photogenic.

You know, like Marlowe/Jonson/Bacon/Earl of Essex wrote the Shakespeare plays.

i thought Romeo and Juliet was written by Bernstein and Sondheim

[duke o' york]

Frankenstein is good, and makes up for whoever mentioned Dracula. Yack!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Laz is right, the French haven't got a hope when it comes to poets. Fortunately, although he wrote almost all of his work in Britain, Wilde doesn't count, or else they'd have a pretty tough time with drama too.

Stick to the novels mes braves!

Its a question of tactics, and Id say the french made the right call. If they went head to head on novelists, y'all could use poets as the coup de grace. Instead theyre mixing it up on poets already, having forced y'all to play catch up on novelists.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


I match you with Keats, then raise you a Byron and a Percy Bysshe Shelley.

When it came to doomed young romantic poets, the Brit Pack made the French look like a bunch of eunuchs.

I bet they would love that!

[lord of the mark]

ok, focusing on women again, two who wrote under male noms de plumes, BOTH under the name George/Georges


For the Brits

George ElliotDaniel Derrida (?), and a bunch of others


For the French

George Sand - I dont recall what she wrote, just that she was Chopin's girlfriend (or am i misremembering)


Dansed

[duke o' york]

lotm, to whom were you referring when you said "y'all"?

I'm from Blighty my good chap, but I'm with our European friends on this one.

Oh, and it was George Sand (only one S)

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
lotm, to whom were you referring when you said "y'all"?

I'm from Blighty my good chap, but I'm with our European friends on this one.

in the above post, y'all referred to the Brit fellas.

Of course you need not stick with your fellow nationals on the question of this rumble.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Next we have William Makepeace "Vanity Fair" Thackeray, and Richard "Lorna Doone" Blackmore. Reel with.

Feel the pain, France!

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


I match you with Keats, then raise you a Byron and a Percy Bysshe Shelley.

When it came to doomed young romantic poets, the Brit Pack made the French look like a bunch of eunuchs.

I match you with Rimbaud, then raise you with Verlaine and Mallarmé. I don't know if I win, because I don't know beans about poetry...

[duke o' york]

Lorna Doone's rubbish too. Reeled in.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Globalization note - Andrew Lloyd Webber, a Brit, has made a musical (Broadway style, typically US) based on one of his most famous novels, Les Miserables. ("Have you been Mizzed yet?")

Gaaack, No.

ALW has nothing to do with the musical. It was written by the team of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil (decidely French).

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by nostromo


I match you with Rimbaud, then raise you with Verlaine and Mallarmé. I don't know if I win, because I don't know beans about poetry...

And now you're left staring up the twin barrels of Coleridge and Tennyson.

Too easy!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Gaaack, No.

ALW has nothing to do with the musical. It was written by the team of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil (decidely French).

Oops.