Tristam Shandy
I would like to recommend one of the best written pieces of English prose (stylistically) I have come across in a long time. It also happens to be highly amusing, as well as packed with worldly (in the good old practical sense) wisdom for the overly naive. Lawrence Sterne's Tristam Shandy is part of that stream of beautiful English inaugurated by Chaucer, continued through Shakespeare, and kept up in our own day and time by such writers as Tolkien or Churchill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Shandy
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/oct2000.html
Sterne is in the Roman comedic tradition, and while not necessarily very Christian in an explicit way, reflects a Christened Imperial tradition that we can enjoy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Shandy
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/oct2000.html
Sterne is in the Roman comedic tradition, and while not necessarily very Christian in an explicit way, reflects a Christened Imperial tradition that we can enjoy.
posted by Matthew C Smallwood | 4:07 PM
1 Comments:
I have a copy, but I can't be parted from it right now. Frightfully sorry.
And since you are practically my only contributing sponsor, what would you like to see more or less of? More literature?
I can do it!
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