tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3945097212305106332..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: On Google Books - Wayfarers in Arcady by Charles VinceBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-61787118952270556712011-09-09T15:34:54.871+01:002011-09-09T15:34:54.871+01:00Yes, an old soul indeed. I wonder what became of h...Yes, an old soul indeed. I wonder what became of him? He seems to be awaiting death. <br /><br />My father once bought a secondhand book simply because of the name standing out from the shelves while browsing - it was called Charlton, and the author was not identified any further. It turned out to be a memorable autobiography of an army officer.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-99190028747708472011-09-09T15:26:28.646+01:002011-09-09T15:26:28.646+01:00I happen to have a copy of Charles Vince's ...I happen to have a copy of Charles Vince's 'Wayfarers in Arcady', acquired at some point simply because of the author's name. Your comment prompted me to reread it. The author seems such an old soul for a man so young. But thank you for reminding me of both author and book.<br /><br />Ronald Vince, Professor Emeritus, McMaster UniversityRonald Vincenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-67082212746337266402010-12-14T05:45:39.044+00:002010-12-14T05:45:39.044+00:00I think that is probably right - except that the p...I think that is probably right - except that the pacifist antiwar feeling came from, and probably began with, the literary men in service (Rupert Brooks, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen etc). <br /><br />Then the mood was picked-up by the literary avant garde like TS Eliot, in the early 1920s, and made trendy in academic circles and among communists. <br /><br />But it did not affect everyone - the most genuinely and lastingly popular of that generation - Tolkien and C.S Lewis, did not share in it (they recognized heroism as well as horror; courage as well as kindness) - as is well argued in Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88719445991319762532010-12-13T22:36:20.686+00:002010-12-13T22:36:20.686+00:00Just the other day I started to reread "Mud,...Just the other day I started to reread "Mud, Blood and Poppycock" by Corrigan. It includes the proposition that the strong anti-WWI feeling was not present during or soon after the war - it was developed rather later.deariemenoreply@blogger.com