Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unearthed information that sheds light on Faulkner's fiction. An early jotting regarding Absalom, Absalom! reveals that Faulkner was concerned more with the way his different narrators--especially Quentin--obtain their information about Colonel Sutpen than he was with the Sutpen story itself. The young Faulkner's correspondence with Sherwood Anderson records an amusing fantasy world of swamp animals they created...
Faulkner's life exudes a mysterious aura which the pedestrian and meticulous treatment by Blotner fails to convey. Those cherished myths--the rum runs in the Gulf of Mexico, Sherwood Anderson's promise to get Soldier's Pay published if he did not have to read it--are set straight as if "for the record." Pleasant Sunday picnics come across as only data...
...there was little doubt last week that the vote from the coal fields would approve a strike. On a visit to Nottingham near legendary Sherwood Forest, TIME'S Skip Gates found emotions running high. "I'll tell you why they'll vote to strike," declared Mrs. Maggie Johnson, a miner's wife for 43 years. "They talk about mechanization-well, the foul air's still there, the dust's still there, the dank's still there. It used to be the miners put their pride in their pockets -they had to, didn...
Today, like Ellen Glasgow and Sherwood Anderson, Cather has her own persistent following. In addition, students are still required to read the chaste historical novels Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock in high school English classes. Many sound things can be learned from Cather. Her writing was almost always serene and poised, and she had the ability-which perhaps cannot be taught-of making her prose move as fast as the action she was describing...
Ibsen's theme is universal. In American terms, it means that Ibsen would approve Sherwood Anderson's vision of the crabbed, tormented, camouflaged souls of Winesburg, Ohio, rather than the blithely idealized innocents of Thornton Wilder's Grovers Corners. In European terms, James Joyce perhaps came closest to Ibsen when he wrote, "Ireland is the old sow that eats its own farrow...