tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post1579034436936662552..comments2024-03-28T11:28:31.364-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Copious Overflows of Ghastly Bosh'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-58999751746319570062015-08-20T17:41:35.579-05:002015-08-20T17:41:35.579-05:00Mencken knew Bierce, and wrote an interesting essa...Mencken knew Bierce, and wrote an interesting essay on him.<br /><br />But I think that Yeats, in his <i>Autobiographies</i> wrote quite sober criticism that Wilde would have found more painful. For example,<br /><br />"[Wilde] might have had a career like that of Beaconsfield, whose early style resembles his, being meant for crowds, for hurried decisions, for immediate triumphs. Such men get their sincerity, if at all, from the contact of events; the dinner-table was Wilde's event and made him the greatest talker of his time, and his plays and dialogues have what merit they possess from being now an imitation, now a record of his talk."<br /><br />Elsewhere Yeats speaks of a "vague impressiveness" that could not hold "an accurate ear." There isn't a bit of contumely in this, but Wilde might have found it harder to take.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-68025263653909990302015-08-20T04:10:59.930-05:002015-08-20T04:10:59.930-05:00The Bierce (in full) is wonderful. Imagine Mencken...The Bierce (in full) is wonderful. Imagine Mencken's pedigree must derive from this stable.Subbuteohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263202102536057266noreply@blogger.com