Henry Fielding

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The English Homer. A true mensch. And classic.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spent a fair while in debtor's prison, and swore like a trooper. Yes, classic.

― Will McKenzie, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Made me larf like a drane, therefore classic.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom Jones was bawdy goodness . an englsih Gargantuan

― anthony easton, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

All the above plus he cared about justice more anything except his woman and his kids.

― Steve Sewall, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Utterly Fantastic (and his sister wasn't a bad writer either). I re- read TomJones every two or three years to remind myself of how funny and socially conscious you can be, and he was up against it. Bawdy without being boring.

I remember the look of fear on the other A-Level students when it was slapped on the table as the first book we would do. A good way of weeding out the non-serious ones. The rest of us loved it. Joseph Andrews is grate too.

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I feel compelled to disagree - he wasn't bad but he wasn't as lucidly ludic as Sterne, nor as poignant as Cervantes, and certainly not fit to buckle the corset of Rabelais. Decent and well intentioned, but with no real gusto. If he were around today, I imagine he would be a workaday lad-lit purveyor, midway between Jonathan Coe and Tim Lott.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Gusto! Bah, you wouldn't know gusto if they served it up in a gravy boat and poured it over your roast beef.

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I refer, of course, to 'gusto' in the William Hazlitt sense, Pete, and not the gorblimey where's the whelk stall I'm the Barnet Danny Baker sense you obviously use. [is this what le nouveau snobisme is about? : )]

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, I was of course thinking of Bisto.

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

I'm with you, Mrs. Welthorpe. I'm ashamed (or maybe not) to say that I haven't read Cervantes, and I've forgotten the little Rabelais I may have read, but he's not up to Sterne. He's not even as good at his own game as Richardson, whom I admit can be uneven and whom Fielding loved to kibitz.

― David, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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