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Search - Lorna Doone - A Romance Of Exmoor

Lorna Doone A Romance Of Exmoor
Author: R. D. Blackmore

oma uoom A ROMANCE OF E x M o o K by K. D. JJlac cmore ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN AUSTEN The, Jlertiage Illustratea JjooKshelf Newark The special contents of this edition are copyright, 1943, by The Heritage Press for the George Macy Companies, Inc. - JIQRM HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE by John T. Winterich JLjfonNA DOONE belongs to the decade that gave the... more » world Great Expectations, The Cloister and the Hearth, Even Harrington, Silas Marner, and The Adventures of Philip on the further side of the Atlantic, and, on this, Elsie Venner, Little Women, The Innocents Abroad, The Luck of Roaring Camp, and The Story of a Bad Boy. Those titles represent pretty stiff competition. They are titles, too, which bring the names of the respective authors surging up out of the subconscious as soon as they are uttered. Not so with Lorna Doone. Lorna Doone is the sort of book which, when it is mentioned, causes the auditor to query himself Who wrote Lorna Doone Who did write Lorna Doone If he is alert, lucky, and equipped with a reasonably sound memory, his mnemonic mechanism will squeeze out some such com bination as Richard M. Dodgson, or R, D. Blackburn, or Robert Dods ley Blackman. If he is one of those insufferable recording machines who always have the right answers, he will say Richard Doddridge Black more. Press him further. The chance will be one in a thousand that he can give Blackmores approximate birth and death dates or marital condition. Actually, biographical data relating to Richard Doddridge Black more is readily accessible, provided one can put ones hands on a copy of Richard Doddridge Blackmore His Life and Novels, written by Quincy Guy Burris and published by the University of Illinois in 1930. Mr. Burriss study was a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. I hope and trust that he got it. He had the perspicacity to detect a gap in the wall of English literary biography, and he plugged it with a monograph that went into a second printing, which is as rare a phenomenon in the in stance of doctoral theses as of privately-printed first books of poems. I hope, when the hood was finally draped over Dr. Burriss capable shoulders, somebody read a citation which included the words He resurrected the forgotten Victorian. Here are some indications of just how forgotten Richard Doddridge Blackmore the man is. His Jirst two productions were books of verse. In their introduction to a school text of Lorna Doone issued in 1929 Professors W. P. Trent and W. T. Brewster of Columbia University state that the second of these collections, Epullia, contained what is regarded as Blackmores best poem, To My Pen 9 1 have never heard of it, let alone read it, nor do I know anyone who has ever heard of it or vii Vlii HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE read it. It is not cited in the Morley-Bartlett Familiar Quotations or in Stevensons Home Boole of Quotations, where there are a handful of citations from Blackmore, none of them memorable, some of them quoted by Blackmore himself as old proverbs. The Home Book of Quotations, meticulously edited and indexed as it is, assigns to him one quotation which on examination proves to be from the works of Sir Richard Black more, who flourished, if that be not too strong a description, a century and a half before Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Again, while everybody knows that somebody wrote a novel called Lorna Doone, even those ones-in-a-thousand who know that Blackmore wrote it cannot name a single other book he wrote outside, of course, of Dr. Burris...

ISBN-13: 9781406732023
ISBN-10: 1406732028
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 580
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Publisher: Shelley Press
Book Type: Paperback
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