Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - Volume 2: Mid-Season Form
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - Volume 2: Mid-Season Form
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Author(s): Kent, Paul
ISBN No.: 9781916190863
Pages: 336
Year: 202205
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 34.50
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Praise for Volume 1: "This is jolly old FAME." Despite Wodehouse's antipathy towards critics, Kent's first volume demonstrates just how much the thick-skinned of us have to explore in his work. The term sweetness and light has notable literary origins in distinctly literary works, stemming from dulce et utile (literally sweet and useful ) from Horace s Ars Poetica, by way of Jonathan Swift and Matthew Arnold. The words symbolize not just a Victorian gentility but a classless curiosity, and love for fellow man. Wodehouse s work should perhaps be seen in this vein, useful tonic to the darkness in the world, and more poetry than plot. It is therefore excellent news that we await two more volumes of Paul Kent s work that can help us to unpick that poetry and try to better understand the source of that sunlit perfection . -- Eliza Easton In the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) It s amazing after the many thousands of words written about PGW that there can still be anything new to say but Paul offers many fresh thoughts and assessments, expressing them most effectively and entertainingly . -- Murray Hedgcock , author of Wodehouse at the Wicket A delightful work, complex and full of revelation throughout.


And yet for me, the best part of reading this is the tone that somehow simulates Wodehouses in an academic work . Gary Hall , Editor of Plum Lines, the quarterly journal of the Wodehouse Society The book is great . most excellent. Thomas Langston Reeves Smith , past President, The Wodehouse Society (US).


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