Comments on: Hath Melted Like Snow In The Glance Of The Lord http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/14/hath-melted-like-snow-in-the-glance-of-the-lord/ Politics and Culture from a Catholic perspective. Thu, 24 May 2012 02:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Donald R. McClarey http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/14/hath-melted-like-snow-in-the-glance-of-the-lord/#comment-3799 Donald R. McClarey Wed, 12 May 2010 00:37:08 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11255#comment-3799 "And as Emerson said “A man should be judged by his best moment”." Very convenient for bounders and cads. “And as Emerson said “A man should be judged by his best moment”.”

Very convenient for bounders and cads.

]]> By: Gabriel Austin http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/14/hath-melted-like-snow-in-the-glance-of-the-lord/#comment-3798 Gabriel Austin Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:01:53 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11255#comment-3798 Why should anyone care about how you "feel" about the man? If we has a good poet, why then cite some of his poetry for our pleasure. If a bad man, do not rely on half truths which are now not to be verified. Byron was very fond of his daughter, Allegra. And keep always in mind de mortuis nil nisi bonum. For, after all, the dead cannot defend themselves. And as Emerson said "A man should be judged by his best moment". Why should anyone care about how you “feel” about the man? If we has a good poet, why then cite some of his poetry for our pleasure.

If a bad man, do not rely on half truths which are now not to be verified. Byron was very fond of his daughter, Allegra. And keep always in mind de mortuis nil nisi bonum. For, after all, the dead cannot defend themselves.

And as Emerson said “A man should be judged by his best moment”.

]]> By: Cminor http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/14/hath-melted-like-snow-in-the-glance-of-the-lord/#comment-3797 Cminor Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:06:48 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11255#comment-3797 While I admire Byron's poetry, you probably don't want to know how I "feel" about the man himself. He was a dissolute, self-indulgent user and abandoner of women (and any unfortunate children they may have borne him) with no sense of common decency. He merits little in the way of admiration for anything other than his literary skill and occasional bravado. Though it's a predictable answer, Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Windhover. Also James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones. While I admire Byron’s poetry, you probably don’t want to know how I “feel” about the man himself. He was a dissolute, self-indulgent user and abandoner of women (and any unfortunate children they may have borne him) with no sense of common decency. He merits little in the way of admiration for anything other than his literary skill and occasional bravado.

Though it’s a predictable answer, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s The Windhover. Also James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones.

]]> By: Gabriel Austin http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/08/14/hath-melted-like-snow-in-the-glance-of-the-lord/#comment-3796 Gabriel Austin Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:44:23 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=11255#comment-3796 Is it not an error to tell us how "you" "feel" about such a well regarded poet as Lord Byron? Goethe thought he was a great poet. Great-great-grandma doted on him. Add to which his efforts to free Greece from the [dare one say it?] Turkish tyranny. This was the spark of the Greek fraternities in the U.S. when they were doing something worthwhile. Byron's DON JUAN is hilarious reading And ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOT REVIEWERS is great satire. Is it not an error to tell us how “you” “feel” about such a well regarded poet as Lord Byron? Goethe thought he was a great poet. Great-great-grandma doted on him.

Add to which his efforts to free Greece from the [dare one say it?] Turkish tyranny. This was the spark of the Greek fraternities in the U.S. when they were doing something worthwhile.

Byron’s DON JUAN is hilarious reading And ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOT REVIEWERS is great satire.

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