Possession: A Romance

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There was no year on the letters, but they must necessarily come after the publication of Ash's dramatic poems, Gods, Men and Heroes, which had appeared in 1856 and had not, contrary to Ash's hopes and perhaps expectations, found favour with the reviewers, who had declared his verses obscure, his tastes perverse and his people extravagant and improbable. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Following a trail of clues from letters and journals, they collaborate to uncover the truth about Ash and LaMotte's relationship, before it is discovered by rival colleagues.

Maud and Roland also discover that Mortimer Cropper, a particularly stubborn and selfish academic, intends to dig up Ash's grave as he believes that further letters may have been buried with him. That after passion is spent, heartache subdued and disappointments diluted in the sea of memories, that long after the stillborn happiness has burnt out in the arson of irreconcilable pasts, dead words will be rekindled from the ashes with every new reading, Phoenix-like. In short, the whole book is a gigantic tease – which is certainly satisfying on an intellectual level" but, "Possession's true centre is a big, red, beating heart. Roland had the small single table he liked best, behind a square pillar, with the clock over the fireplace nevertheless in full view.

The story is situated in 2 timeframes: amongst literary scientists of today (that is the end of the 1980’s), and amongst Victorian poets, in the midst of the 19th century. I'm going to have to go even further down the disgustingly adoring path and say that this is going to be a personal classic, for me. They were both letters in Ash's flowing hand, both headed with his Great Russell Street address and dated June 21st. Sorry but this did not interest me a bit, halfway I was about to give up but I managed to quickly read some of the second half. How all the characters still in character, the resolution to both romances at the end, all the touches about criticism - all these ring true.

That opens the possibility of modern romance to parallel the past, culminating in rather ludicrous scenes in Cornwall. which reveal a hitherto unknown, and clearly affectionate, attachment between Ash and a woman not his wife.The literary critic forces the author to become parroting minions, and closes his interpretation to anything new the author has to say. It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. So I'm going to cook more creatively and read more fantasy, because I keep forgetting I like those things. This curiosity was a kind of predictive familiarity; he knew the workings of the other man’s mind, he had read what he had read, he was possessed of his characteristic habits of syntax and stress. We’re currently in the death throes of the postmodern, but it’s amazing she already wrote this in the 90s.