Comments | lucretius: Word of the Day: Umbrageous

lucretius

Word of the Day: Umbrageous

Jan 23, 2007 22:37

I'm currently teaching a whole lot of Edgar Allan Poe. I'll hit most of the better known short stories, some poems, and some essays and reviews (but not Pym). My plan (which I'll adhere to until I go crazy or run out of time, which will be soon) is to download all of the stories I'm teaching, and do a line-by-line (almost) annotation using the ( Read more... )

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koolkitty January 24 2007, 17:50:09 UTC

Hehe. Cool. I will have to use umbrageous as a word today.

I do enjoy Poe. Did you read the article about the guy who goes to Poe's grave every year for the last like 45 years and leaves Brandy and two roses?

lucretius February 11 2007, 02:29:12 UTC

Yep. Always struck me that there's not more unique wackiness of this sort in the world. People seem to like it a great deal.

proprtyoftheman January 24 2007, 19:27:42 UTC

i don't think this will be such a painful process with poe. at least it's not a hawthorne novel or all of melville's short works which all seem to be about the same damn thing. not that i'm bitter about that or anything.

lucretius February 11 2007, 01:19:00 UTC

Heh. I'll be doing all of Melville's short works later on. My students love me.

proprtyoftheman February 12 2007, 17:26:32 UTC

i prefer melville's moby dick to most of his shorter works. they all seem to be the same thing. but then again i prefer hawthorne's shorter works to his novels. poe gets a pass on most of what he does even though he totures the brunettes.

lucretius February 22 2007, 19:04:11 UTC

I'm mostly with you--though I think Melville's short works are all similar because they're written during a similar phase, and I think except for the effect of real excess, they're often as fine as anything he wrote. But they're whatsit--chastened. He's gotten burned, and so doesn't build his fires quite as large anymore.

I never have liked Hawthorne's romances--they seem a bit like diffuse versions of his short stories. Of course, I'm about to teach The Scarlet Letter, so. Ehn. ;)

Poe I like throughout, but boy oh boy, repetitious.

watersusurrus January 24 2007, 21:45:47 UTC

Would Google documents and spreadsheets let you do that?

lucretius February 22 2007, 19:09:03 UTC

Hm. Not sure. Initial experiments seem to say no--I have problems making the notes as clearly visible as I need while keeping the text visible as well.