Posted by David Lahti on October 11, 1999 at 21:12:24:

In Reply to: Re: Jones's relevancy to today... posted by John Decker on September 22, 1999 at 13:34:19:

John,

I agree with you about the negative aspect of Fielding's style (namely, the ponderous sentences) that I forgot to mention in my essment. It is a good point. I tend to get used to that style, though, when reading from that eighteenth-century era (long after KJV, but long before C. S. Lewis; incidentally two of my favorite reads). I bet I could find over a hundred lines of Pope, for instance, without a period. The fact that it is poetry seems only partially to excuse him. That long-winded prose seems in some cases (e.g., Teray) to have leaked into the 19th century as well. Anyway, I am more amused than impressed by Fielding's meandering style, including his sometimes paragraphic sentences. I can almost imagine him talking your ear off in a pub, not letting you get a word in edgewise. A curiosity in English literature, to be sure! Thanks for the comment.

-David.

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: John, : I agree with you about the negative aspect of Fielding's style (namely, the ponderous sentences) that I forgot to mention in my essment. It is a good point. I tend to get used to that style, though, when reading from that eighteenth-century era (long after KJV, but long before C. S. Lewis; incidentally two of my favorite reads). I bet I could find over a hundred lines of Pope, for instance, without a period. The fact that it is poetry seems only partially to excuse him. That long-winded prose seems in some cases (e.g., Teray) to have leaked into the 19th century as well. Anyway, I am more amused than impressed by Fielding's meandering style, including his sometimes paragraphic sentences. I can almost imagine him talking your ear off in a pub, not letting you get a word in edgewise. A curiosity in English literature, to be sure! Thanks for the comment. : -David.

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