TR & Tanner on Real reality

[Richard Ryan]

I will look for this essay.  The Hawthorne connection to WG seems
obvious  now that I've heard it made: they are both great deflators of
spiritual pretension.   What they're actual spiritual beliefs might
have been remains (at least to me) a mystery.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:01 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard, the Tanner essay on Hawthorne's BR  is available online.
> Tanner's is the kind of reader that we all love to listen to because
> he makes such beautiful music. He connects Hawthorne with Gaddis
> briefly and others have too. Why Tanner omits Gaddis from this volume,
> he belongs between Fitzgerald, Pynchon's father, and Pynchon or where
> Tanner puts DeLillo.  In the volume, _The American Mystery_ Tanner
> proves himself a poet and a master scholar of America.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
>> Excellent!  Tell us more....
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM, alice wellintown
>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So, rushing out the door with the wrong book, I read it anyway because
>>> I had along train ride and a long stand and wait, and because I
>>> enjoyed it twice and three is a charm or something like that. It is
>>> Tanner's Ameican Mystery and I direct you to the essay on Hawthorne
>>> where he talks of the real. It is abeautiful reading of Blithdale and
>>> of a few poems. It fits the TR like a glove.
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Richard Ryan
>> New York and the World
>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround
>> him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself.
>> All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw
>>
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Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround
him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw